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OIL, OIL & MORE OIL
Copyright By Ronald G.
Taylor, ©2004
Two industries
played important parts in the history of Allegany County beyond the most common
(farming) - - Lumber & Oil. Lumber will be presented at another time and
place on the website. To settle issues of
Oil in Allegany County, surrounding counties and New York State is a difficult
if not impossible feat given the fact that so many of the area veteran “oilmen”
are long gone and stories abound. A few remain who have experiences to tell and
questions loom on the horizon about whether some of what they have to tell are
fact or fiction. It is not my desire to settle issues, rather to present
stories, facts, quotes and pictures to share with others the glorious past in
“Allegany Crude”.
I have long respected
John P. Herrick, Olean,NY, who published “Empire Oil” in 1949, and who perhaps
achieved as close to a “Bible” on the subject of oil in our neighborhood as
anyone will ever write. His literary talent as well as his research ability may
be unequaled on the subject of Oil.
Email to: RON TAYLOR
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The One That Started It All!!
From the Allegany County Democrat - Researched by Mary Rhodes
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INTERESTING OIL STORIES - GLEANED FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS
- THE WELLSVILLE OIL FIELD 1879 Newspaper account
- HONEOYE OIL!! 2 Articles from rare microfilm of Allegany County Republican newspaper;
"OIL CERTAIN !" & "OIL DRIPPINGS - HERE, THERE & ELSEWHERE"; 11/22/1877
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Richburg History -- Discovery of Oil
- Thrilling Day at Ceres;
E.C. Kilmer, With 60 Quarts of Nitro-Glycerin in His Wagon, Injured in Runaway Accident at Ceres Sunday
- John P. Herrick's
"Interview with Charles F. Fox"; Was Postmaster at Richburg in The Days of the Oil Boom Back in the Eighties.
- Photos of Empire Gas & Fuel Ltd., Employees - March 1962
- "FOUR BARREL WELL IN WELLSVILLE; Phillips Brothers Made a Little Strike on the Macklin Farm, Lot 92
- QUEER OIL REGION ROADS; Railroads of the Oil Days
- "THE HONEOYE WELL"; Sometimes oil was elusive; This is a story of one such well....The early years before the "big strike" didn't come until the next year...from Allegany Democrat, 1878
- "The Wellsville Story; A Small New York Town Holds a Big Celebration"; 1954
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BIG GAS WELL ON CRANDALL FARM, TOWN OF INDEPENDENCE, BLOWS IN!! (1940)
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Wellsville Daily Reporter Columns about Gas, Marcellus Shale & Talk to be given by former Resident - TALK SCHEDULED FOR 8/11/08
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"BLOWN TO ATOMS"
- Tragic Death of Charley Key, Shooter for the DuPont Powder Co. – Man and Team Go
Up with 800 Quarts of Nitro-Glycerin.--Wellsville Daily Reporter, 1910
- Richburg Well - The Work of the Torpedo Yesterday - April 28, 1881
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The Richburg Strike - April 29, 1881
- Another Gusher! The McBride Well Torpedoed - The Biggest Well Yet ! - May 2, 1881
- Lucky Strike - Friendship Weekly Register, Oct. 8, 1885
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- Allentown - RED HOT;
Allentown, the metropolis of the Allegany Oil Field, is making fast its reputation as an oil town.
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THE RICHBURG DISCOVERY WELL - The Story of the well that opened
the Richburg Field; Names from Wirt, Alma, Allentown, Bolivar &
Wellsville
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Sinclair Oil Refinery (Wellsville,NY)
(We welcome any contributions of stories
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Pioneer Oil Museum of New York, Inc.(Bolivar,NY)
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PICTURES:
OLDEST OIL WELL IN NY (TAP THUMBNAIL IMAGE FOR
LARGER PICTURE) - (Empire
Oil, 1949, John P. Herrick; Dodd,Mead & Company)
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MAPS:
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c.1883 OIL Section Map -
Allegany Field Petrolia, Alma, Allentown, Pikeville, Richburg, Bolivar, South Bolivar, Little
Genesee, Carver, Ceres, and More!
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