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Publisher
Venango County Historical Society
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
History of Venango County, Pennsylvania, and incidentally of petroleum, together with accounts of the early settlements and progress of each township, borough and village, with personal and biographical sketches of the early settlers, representative men, family records, etc. by an able corps of historians. With illustrations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill.(photographs) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the history of Titusville with archival photographs that present the distinctive story of this small town in Pennsylvania where crude oil was first discovered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
127 p.
Language
English
Description
From 1860 until the decline of the railroads nearly 100 years later, Pennsylvania led the nation in railroad miles. The zenith came in 1920, when the state boasted 11,500 miles of track. The northwest corner of the state was home to the Pennsylvania oil rush in the late 19th century, coal mines, timber forests, and stone quarries. The landscape was dotted with railroad depots every couple of miles. These depots were waypoints for business transactions,...