Place · Profile checked · 51 detected mentions
Pennsylvania creek and valley central to the early oil industry; marker is an approximate point along the valley.
Also appears as: Oil Creek · Oil Creek Valley · Along Oil Creek
Location
river · 41.5220°, -79.6680°
- Oil Creek (51 mentions)
- Titusville (42 mentions)
- Oil Regions (22 mentions)
- Oil City (13 mentions)
- Pithole (9 mentions)
- Rouseville (5 mentions)
- Pithole Creek (2 mentions)
- Petroleum Centre (1 mentions)
Reference point for the named place. It is not a surveyed historical boundary or building footprint. This image has no street tiles. Wider maps.
Documented relationships
Daniel O’Day — worked in the oil region — Oil Creek.
Evidence: Ch. 9, ¶49
In the book
Ch. 5, ¶1 Ch. 5, ¶3 Ch. 5, ¶5 Ch. 5, ¶18 Ch. 5, ¶19 Ch. 6, ¶14 Ch. 6, ¶17 Ch. 6, ¶45 Ch. 6, ¶51 Ch. 6, ¶52 Ch. 6, ¶53 Ch. 8, ¶7
Shared passages
A shared paragraph is a reading connection, not proof of a historical relationship. Entries link to the first shared source paragraph.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · 35 shared paragraphs · Ch. 5, ¶18
Standard Oil · 21 shared paragraphs · Ch. 8, ¶18
Cleveland · 13 shared paragraphs · Ch. 5, ¶18
Pennsylvania · 12 shared paragraphs · Ch. 5, ¶1
Titusville · 9 shared paragraphs · Ch. 5, ¶5
South Improvement Company · 9 shared paragraphs · Ch. 8, ¶21
Pittsburgh · 8 shared paragraphs · Ch. 5, ¶19
New York · 8 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶51
Philadelphia · 8 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶51
Pennsylvania Railroad · 6 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶51
Edwin Drake · 5 shared paragraphs · Ch. 5, ¶1
Oil City · 5 shared paragraphs · Ch. 5, ¶18
All 119 shared-passage connections
Automatic suggestions
Unverified verb connections; read the source before interpreting them as facts.
Oil Creek · flow · Allegheny River · Ch. 5, ¶19
Samuel Van Syckel · lay · Oil Creek · Ch. 6, ¶45
Print index
Oil Creek — 73. 74, 80, 101, 102, 112,