Pithole

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Pithole Pennsylvania’s oil boom began in Venango County, one-half mile south of Titusville, late in the afternoon ­of Saturday, August 27, 1859, when Edwin L. Drake (1819-1880) perfected a way to drill for oil and extract it horn the ground. Initially, production was centered in the valleys of Oil Creek and the Allegheny River. In 1865, Isaiah N. Frazier and James Faulkner, employees of a nearby...
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Lost and Found

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Lost and Found Lost Solomon R. Dresser (1842-1911), who amassed a for­tune in the oil industry, built his palatial residence, Belleview Terrace, in Bradford, McKean County, in 1903 after being entranced by the Michigan Building at the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Many Bradford residents who grew wealthy during the oil boom years erected huge houses (see “Survival of An American Boom...
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Letters

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters A Refreshing Read The article on fountains in Philadelphia (“A City of Fountains” by Jim McClel­land, Summer 2005) was a refreshing read-especially as the temperatures reached nearly one hundred degrees several days this summer. Fountains are scattered all throughout of City of Brotherly Love, and I just wonder how many Philadelphians walk (or drive) right past these works of art and...
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Letters

Posted by on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters Boom Town Thank you for the fine article “Survival of an American Boom Town” by Gregory DL Morris in the Summer 2005 issue about Bradford in McKean County. My father was born in Kendall, McKean County, in 1884. That community apparently no longer exists and has become part of Bradford, although there remains a Kendall Creek and a Kendall Avenue, as well as mention in the article of...
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