

6 Months Old- Still Unemployed
The curators found this photo in a scrapbook made from articles in the Beacon magazine, a publication for Ohio Oil personnel. It was not...

Lawrence Lore
May 9, 20241 min read
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355th Eng Depot Co 1950
November 1950 The 355th Engineer Depot Company at Bridgeport, Illinois was activated and sent to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri for...

Lawrence Lore
Apr 29, 20241 min read
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"Safety First"
October 1915 In the photograph below, Ohio Oil's crew of carpenters and roustabouts are headed for the new gasoline plant being built at...

Lawrence Lore
Apr 26, 20241 min read
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Last Rites for First Producing Well
According to the records of the Bridgeport Office, old well No. 1 on the C L Lewis farm, Petty Township, was completed on or about May...

Lawrence Lore
Apr 22, 20241 min read
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Fifty Years = A Certificate
Fifty years of continuous and constructive service in the petroleum industry earned William D Loftus of Lawrenceville a certificate from...

Lawrence Lore
Apr 18, 20242 min read
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"Car Barn" at Texaco
Car Barn or Fab Shop where pipefitters and sheet metal welders worked at Texaco. In the 1930s Texaco made thier own tank cars.

Lawrence Lore
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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Indian Refinery Cooperage
Wooden barrels were made on site for shipment of motor oil and grease.

Lawrence Lore
Feb 27, 20241 min read
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Bootlegger's Dew
Sumner Press January 7 1909 Â (three years after oil was discovered) Lawrenceville News: States Attorney Sumner has moved his office into...

Lawrence Lore
Feb 1, 20242 min read
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