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Nostalgia - A Look Back. History Photos of Oil City

Oil Creek near Oil City, Pennsylvania photo from Victorian Region.

Sample of Displays at the Venango Museum in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Wurlitzer Organ at the Venango Museum in Oil City, Pennsylvania.

Oil Heritage Alliance of Business, Industry, and Tourism.

The mission of the PETROLEUM HISTORY INSTITUTE is to pursue the history, heritage and development of the modern oil industry from its 1859 inception in Oil Creek Valley, Pennsylvania, to its early roots in other regions in North America and the subsequent spread throughout the world to its current global status. The PETROLEUM HISTORY INSTITUTE is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, and all donations are thereby tax deductible. For more on the creation of the PETROLEUM HISTORY INSTITUTE, please see "Passing the Torch" by Larry Woodfork, Oil-Industry History, v. 4 (2003), p. 2.