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From Buffalo Express - June 30, 1895
"Richburg of Today."--"Waiting for Something to Turn Up".
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| Richburg View c.1926 Post Card from Don Adams Collection |
Wirt District #4 School Class
c.1910 Help Identify; Known: Front 2nd from right, Allie May Robbins (Colley, Gillette). Submitted by Mary Miller |
Richburg "Discovery Well" (1) Photo by Robert Christman 2001 |
Richburg Discover Well (2)
Monument Photo by Robert Christman |
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| Richburg Oil Days c.1890 Used with permission from Town of Wirt Museum |
Old Richburg,NY School (unknown
year) From Don Adams Collection |
Discovery Well Plaque "Site of the First Producing Well in the Richburg Oil field Completed April 27, 1881 by the Richburg Oil Company at a depth of 1231 1/4 feet. Well site granted to Town of Wirt by Owner of the Farm" |
c.1882 Richburg, Town of Wirt MoneySaver Picture; Submitted by Sidney & Sandra Cleveland from archives of Emma Lou King, former Alma Town Historian. |
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| Richburg during Oil Craze c.1887
Printed in 1935 Diamond Jubilee Edition of Olean Times Herald |
Early View of Main
Street-Richburg; Notice the wooden oil rig... Above Post Card available in a set of notecards produced & may be purchased from B.R.A.G. Historical Society in Bolivar,NY (Used with permission) |
View of Main Sreet - Richburg - Unknown Year Original Postcard owned and shared by Richard Palmer of Syracuse, NY |
Fay School - District 9, Town of Wirt; 1914 or 1915. Another clipping from Wellsville Pennysaver columns; shared by Connie Barney |