Map of the Allegany County Oil Field

by J. A. Seymour

$2,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Scarce relic of the Allegany County, New York oil boom: a cadastral map of the region with manuscript additions showing the locations of wells. The Pennsylvania oil rush -- the first such boom in America -- had begun in earnest in the 1860s in the Oil Creek Valley near Titusville. But by the 1870s it had begun to die down. Seeking new areas for drilling, in 1881 on a geologist's advice an investor group drilled a well on the Reading Farm in Richburg, New York, about a

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