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…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…

Hidden Heritage

…Etzel Oil City’s unique history can come out in bits and pieces. The community can claim one-of-a-kinds, Read More Second Presbyterian Church November 11, 2022 Judy Etzel A Milestone in…

Grove Hill Cemetery
2210, 2021

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…

Taking Flight
1911, 2021

Taking Flight

…the pilot who demonstrated the company’s planes. When a Japanese newspaper offered $25,000 in prize money to the first pilots to fly non-stop across the Pacific, they signed up. Pangborn…

Buffalo Bill
2708, 2021

Buffalo Bill

…for swindling the audience and putting on an “atrociously poor” show. Don’t come back to Oil City, blared a local newspaper headline. However, subsequent shows over the years in the…

One of a Kind
0403, 2022

One of a Kind

Thrills and skills combined frequently in the prosperous Oil City and surrounding area as daredevils, stuntmen, tricksters and others made headlines for doing something unusual. Tree-sitting? We had that in…

Parochial Schools
2406, 2022

Parochial Schools

…to his late parents, John and Elizabeth McSweeney. McSweeney was also Interested in sports of all kinds and he contributed a large sum of money for the completion of the…

Ducks and Roses
0402, 2022

Ducks and Roses

…Fargo Express on the morning of May 29th one (1) dozen of your best grade dark roses to the following address”. A money order receipt, dated Feb. 27, 1908, for…

Oil City Aces
0511, 2021

Oil City Aces

…company, Jarecki Industries, on 13th Street in Franklin. It expanded to Erie County a few years later. The family moved from Reno to Erie where he bought the Commodore Downs…