Grocery Stores

Grocery Stores

…Oil City’s Bishop Avenue until recently. Two sisters, Rebecca Colvin and Heidi Wise owned and operated the business until its closure in July 2023. The one-block long section of State…

Orchestras

Orchestras

…Oil City High School, to organize the post band – the Oil City 40 & 8 Band. Oil City’s band was different from those elsewhere because the members stayed together…

Teens

…to the Core – Eric Gansworth Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds Six Crimson Cranes – Elizabeth Lim Darius the Great is Not Okay – Adib Khorram Everything You Wanted…

Grove Hill Legends

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…

The Winter Midway Plaisance

The Winter Midway Plaisance

The Oil City Relief Association and city hall teamed up in December 1894 for a week-long celebration to raise money for the city’s poor. Billed as the Winter Midway Plaisance,…

Grove Hill Cemetery

Grove Hill Cemetery

…site had been long referred to as “one of the largest wild turkey roosts in the county.” Two men are shown posing with a horse boasting a hefty mane and…

Join the Club

Join the Club

…the officers and directors of the club, located on West First Street. When the home was finished, his widow and their two young daughters moved into the house. The three-story…