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Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease, Sheffield Field, Donaldson, Warren County, PA

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Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease, Sheffield Field, Donaldson, Warren County, PA

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Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were first developed here in the effort to recover the high-quality "Pennsylvania Grade" oil. One particularly important, and successful, technique perfected in Pennsylvania was the "central power" pumping of numerous low-production wells to economically recover small amounts of oil. This method of production flourished between ca. 1890 and ca. 1950, and today there are only scattered remains of the once common pumping technique. The Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease is an excellent example of a smaller, centrally powered pumping operation.
Survey number: HAER PA-440
Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction

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1950
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Drake, Edwin
Golden Oil Company
Lilly Machine Works
Bessemer Company
W.C. Norris Company
West Virginia University Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, sponsor
Allegheny National Forest, sponsor
Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Commission, sponsor
Marston, Christopher H, project manager
Elmer, Eric, field team project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Caplinger, Michael W, historian
Lapins, Arturs, delineator
Boxley, Paul, delineator
Daley, Scott, delineator
Hurst, Kara, delineator
McClung, Kevin, delineator
Nicely, John T, photographer
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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