East End Redevelopment
3103, 2023

East End Redevelopment

…jumped off and the train engine plowed into the river bank, standing almost up on its end. The injured were taken to the hospital where they were treated in the…

Local Resources

…Daugherty Brothers Real Estate Gates & Burns Realty 1st Rate Realty Howard Hanna – Rosewood Real Estate Local Real Estate Information Oil Region Realty Shawgo Real Estate Wilson Real Estate…

Luxurious Residences
1609, 2022

Luxurious Residences

…Light Co. He and his wife, Lizzie Loomis, had seven children. She was considered “one of the few women who has developed business qualifications entitling her to rank in the…

Oil City Trains
1305, 2022

Oil City Trains

…City Hotel in the East End. A new colorful mural painted by Michael Allison of Altoona was added to a building at the South Side end of Veterans Bridge in…

Buffalo Bill
2708, 2021

Buffalo Bill

…headline in The Blizzard. An Elaborate Parade Cody’s show actually began with a huge parade down Oil City’s main street. The 10 a.m. parade, “witnessed by many thousands,” featured Cody…

Horses
0807, 2022

Horses

…and Trotting Association built & maintained a track, judges towers, the infield & the grandstand on land donated by Capt. William Hasson on the city’s Hasson Heights. In 1898, local…

Siverly
1703, 2023

Siverly

…Imperial Street (now Colbert) to reflect the plant’s impact. Things got formal in August 1874 when Siverly was incorporated as a borough with Walter Siverly, Abraham’s son, chosen as first…

Quirky Links to Oil City
2001, 2023

Quirky Links to Oil City

…stamp in 1968 and is the only Oil City resident to be so honored. Josiah VanKirk Thompson Josiah VanKirk Thompson Josiah VanKirk Thompson was known as the Coal Baron of…

Grove Hill Legends
1509, 2023

Grove Hill Legends

…businesses were kept open even during bad times when no profit was being made in order to keep the men employed. Geary bought the Collins House on Seneca Street and…