Oil City, Pennsylvania, had been partially destroyed…

June 1892 CE

Oil City, Pennsylvania, had been partially destroyed by flood in 1865 and by both flood and fire in 1866 and again in 1892; on this last occasion, several oil tanks that are struck by lightning give way, and Oil Creek carries a mass of burning oil into the city, where some sixty lives are lost and property valued at more than one million dollars is destroyed on June 5, 1892.

Oil City has grown into a thriving community through the later half of the nineteenth century.

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Oil City Venango Pennsylvania United States View →

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Industrial Revolution, Second View →

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