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VIEW WEST, SOUTH PENN POWERHOUSE, (FROM LEFT) BLEEDER SHED, ENGINE HOUSE, BELT SHED, ECCENTRIC HOUSE. - South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, Clarendon, Warren County, PA
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Nicely, John, creator
Title
VIEW WEST, SOUTH PENN POWERHOUSE, (FROM LEFT) BLEEDER SHED, ENGINE HOUSE, BELT SHED, ECCENTRIC HOUSE. - South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, Clarendon, Warren County, PA
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Drake, Edwin; South Penn Oil Company; Pennzoil Company; Titusville Iron Company; West Virginia University Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, sponsor; Allegheny National Forest, sponsor; Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, sponsor; Marston, Christopher H, project manager; Elmer, Eric, field team project manager; Christianson, Justine, transmitter; Caplinger, Michael, historian; Lapins, Arturs, delineator; Boxley, Paul, delineator; Daley, Scott, delineator; Hurst, Kara, delineator; McClung, Kevin, delineator; Nicely, John T, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Warren County; Clarendon
Date 1996
date QS:P571,+1996-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,62-CLAR.V,1-7
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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 "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 this once common pumping technique. The South Penn Oil Company, G.M. Mead Lot 492 Lease is an excellent, rare, intact example of the mature, highly capitalized era of central powers. Furthermore, its octagon-shaped powerhouse is a refinement unique to northwestern Pennsylvania.
  • Survey number: HAER PA-438
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1909 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3553.photos.360894p
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