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Oil Creek 1.jpg

IMG_4955 Genesee 1.JPG

Wellsville Composite--medium.jpg

IMG_4637 Sinclair sign 3 (1).jpg

Naphtha.jpg

Oil-Operation.jpg

Titusville--1871.jpg

IMG_4897 Sinclair Fire book2 (1).jpg

Oil-Creek-Freshet.jpg

Wellsville Refinery front.jpg
Town along the Genesee River has experienced the rise and fall of fortunes associated with extractive industries: initially lumber and tanning (using bark from hemlock trees), then the petroleum industry. In 1879 oil was discovered near…
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