For Teachers

…skills. Google Cardboard Cardboard Virtual Reality (VR) Headset with head strap, compatible with 3.5″-6″ smart phones. Download the Google cardboard app onto your smartphone and slide your phone into the…

Say Cheese

Say Cheese

…knew of a horse to buy. He told Mather he had no money but would pay for the beast by offering one/sixteenth interest in his pending oil well. Just at…

Taking Flight

Taking Flight

…offered the aviation expertise while Herndon supplied $100,000 to buy a plane, customize it and arrange for 930 gallons of fuel. In Japan, their quest was temporarily delayed when Japanese…

Orchestras

Orchestras

…7, 1929, at the Latonia Theater. All proceeds went to buy blue band uniforms and white drum major and color guard attire. The community was generous in supporting the Oil…

Kramer & Mullins

Kramer & Mullins

…up to $100,000 to buy the molds and various boat-making equipment and tools from the Mullins Manufacturing Corp. of Salem, Ohio. The maker of steel-hulled boats began operations with the…

Rich and Famous

Rich and Famous

…born in 1846 in Shippenville, was the son of a pioneer crude oil buyer at the Tarr Farm. The elder Richardson was in partnership with William Hasson of Oil City….

Old Money

Old Money

…1860 to Oil City to buy crude oil for his company. He became a prominent and wealthy oilman, both as a crude oil buyer and a producer, in the Oil…

Grove Hill Cemetery

Grove Hill Cemetery

…began when a group of Oil City women publicly lobbied to establish a large and public cemetery in the fall of 1870. Money was raised to buy a 9.5 acre…

Join the Club

Join the Club

…floor of the Reynolds, Lamberton and Company building on Seneca Street. It had been a gymnasium club that had gone out of business. Club members ponied up money to buy

The Jewish Community

The Jewish Community

…West First Street. Local realtor Julius Stahl, a leader in the Tree of Life Synagogue, had made a deal in early 1952 to buy the club property, then owned by…