Billion Dollar Oil Field | Day Trippin' | Penn-Brad Oil Museum, Bradford, PA
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- For years, oil was collected from surface seeps. Places where the crude oozed to the surface on it's own. In 1859, near Titusville, PA the first oil well was drilled, and the oil boom was on in northern and western Pennsylvania. The Bradford sands field began production in 1871 and became the first billion dollar oil field in the US!. We made the trek north to visit the Penn-Brad Oil Museum and hear the stories of life in the oil fields, and the adventures of some of those hearty pioneers in the industry! From oil field feuds to nitro glycerine wagons to the way they increased efficiency, the story of the Bradford Oil deposit is a fascinating look back to the dawn of the industrial age! Come on along.
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Excellent historical explanation of Northwest Pennsylvania Oil.
Glad you enjoyed the video! I learned a lot myself talking to Fran. The museum is well worth stopping in!
Awesome! Thanks.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
What a great place to visit. We were just there last month. We started at tutisville Railroad first, and we went to the Drake well Pa museum. So when we got to this museum I had some good idea about what I was looking at. Then we visit the Zippo museum and gift shop.
That is a great day of history! We did Penn-Brad museum, zippo, and Kinzua Bridge State Park on this trip. But there is so much more to film in that region we are putting together plans for another day of shooting up there soon!
I'm glad you enjoyed the trip and thanks for stopping by the channel!
I lived in Bradford in the 1950s to 1960s and my younger brother and I would go up in the surrounding hills and ride on the metal rod lines that went back and forth that came from the pump house to the individual pump jacks. Lots of fun when you're a kid.
You know, I never thought about that when I was up there, but kids and their creativity will always find a way! Thanks for stopping by the channel!
@@raptorPA Raptor. Here's a story my mother told me about that happened when she was a child living in Bradford in the in the late1920s. She and her girl friend were playing in a pump house that was in operation. My mother's friend got too close to that large engine and her dress got caught in the large spinning flywheel. It picked her up off the ground and did a complete revolution before tossing her out when her dress broke free. Had her dress not torn she would have been killed. Lastly, I remember sitting in class at the Hobson Place School and listening to the symphony of those pump house engines. They always made a big noise on the combustion stroke.
@jimfesta8981 that sounds like an adventure!
I grew up in Custer City.....went school 400 ft away from that (now) museum....it was just a big shack in 1970...couldn't drink the water there....had to hall water in gallon jugs from a spring well.....went every sat. We used to ride the jacks as they went up and down...😂
I have heard some great stories from people on growing up in the area. Being a kid in the country was the best! Thanks for stopping by, glad the video brought back some memories!
35 years ago my brother and I grew up a mile down the road we ran all over those hills
Hello from Petrolia Pa.....Home of Penreco and Witco. There are still a few operating wells left here that use a central engine house using those rods to pump a few dozen wells. Petrolia was a huge oil boom town
I have some things out that way on the schedule for summer, I may have to stop in and check that area out more!
****Correction there are 2 McDonald’s that have active oil wells in the parking lot, (Signal Hill / Long Beach, California McDonald’s.)
@@JoeW-kx4rk that's cool to know
Nowadays, that is no longer the case. But Pennsylvania was once considered "The Oil Capital of the World", with oil fields spreading over all over the state, but mainly in the western part of the state.
It definitely is not the producer it used to be. There are new wells going in, tho most new ones have been in the allegheny forest. I would think with synthetic lubricating oils, the economics of extraction are the primary reason. But the history of the industry in the area makes a fascinating story.
@@raptorPA There's still oil being produced in Western Pennsylvania? I'm well aware of natural gas being huge there right now, but not big time oil. But yeah. It's definitely not like the 1800s.
Oh yeah, not like in the heyday, but there is still a jack in the Bradford McDonalds parking lot still pumping oil from a well that was drilled in the 1870's.
www.oleantimesherald.com/news/cline-oil-jack-at-mcdonalds-a-big-attraction-in-the-area/article_49af1ba9-bc2a-5f4a-b2b5-42b97c17f8f9.html
@@raptorPACool.
what make is that pumping unit
Thanks for watching and asking the question. Unfortunately I have no clue lol. The website for the Penn-Brad museum is in the description, and their Facebook page is facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057516516986&mibextid=ZbWKwL
You can message them from there and they can probably let you know.