Book Overview
Forty-five years before the drilling of the famous 1859 Colonel Drake oil well in Pennsylvania, oil was produced and marketed from salt brine wells dug in southeast Ohio. The oil was bottled and sold as a cure-all medicine, Seneca Oil. In 1860, one of the first oil fields in Ohio was discovered approximately 10 miles southeast of these wells. The 1885 discovery of the giant Lima-Indiana oil field set off the oil boom of northwest Ohio, a period of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0738551716
ISBN13:9780738551715
Release Date:February 2008
Publisher:Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Good book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
the only drawback to this book is the table of contents is a bit misleading, it says that there is a whole chapter devoted to morrow county it is not, only about 4 pages of the 15 page chapter is related to moorow county oil
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