Pithole Creek gusher creates Pennsylvania boomtown
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- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. whole source · open book
In January 1865 at a place called Pithole Creek. The nearby rocks and chasms had always emitted sulfur gas and attracted the notice of oilmen. One day, a group of eccentric producers, waving a witch-hazel twig serving as a divining rod, drilled on the spot where the twig dipped down. When a tremendous gusher spouted up days later, another madcap chapter in the oil industry commenced
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