Wharfs & Steamboats
…barge business was written by Walter J. Johns in 1866. It was recounted in a June 28, 1890, newspaper column entitled “Oil City Chroniclings”. It offered, noted the author, a…
…barge business was written by Walter J. Johns in 1866. It was recounted in a June 28, 1890, newspaper column entitled “Oil City Chroniclings”. It offered, noted the author, a…
…same 1879 year that the Hopkins family was building its new mansion on the South Side, a group of local businessmen across the river were forming a new social club….
…The rush of men, women and families to the western Pennsylvania oil fields drew another profession to the region – photographers. The camera-wielding men found their talents were in great…
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…in various states for the Standard’s branches. He later went to work for Standard Oil of New Jersey and also served as a partner of Laidlaw & Co., a New…
…her store featured a large Honor Roll sign that listed all the East End men and women serving in World War II. It was dedicated in June 1944 with an…
Financial success and a keen interest in finding a recreational outlet prompted a group of Oil City men to organize a social club that has flourished for more than a…
…would build a new $550,000 building on Seneca Street. The newly organized Oil City Tank and Boiler Co. said it intended to hire 75 men for the new mill. The…
…traveling down Seneca Street. The former YMCA is visible on the left. The noon hour on Colbert Avenue shows the workmen laboring on street improvements taking a break. His two…
…the new glass industry in the region. The union groups included musicians, bottle workers, locomotive engineers and firemen, painters and paperhangers, railroad trainmen, building trades, carpenters and joiners, coopers, firemen/oilers,…