Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA
1895 - Oil City

Oil City, a city of Venango co., Pa., is situated on the Alleghany River, at the mouth of Oil Creek, 8 miles E.N.E. of Franklin, 28 miles E.S.E. of Meadville, and 18 miles S. of Titusville. It is connected with Pittsburg (132 miles distant) by the Alleghany Valley Railroad, is on the Oil Creek & Alleghany River Railroad, and is a teruminus of the Franklin Branch of the Atlantic & Great Western Rail road and of the Franklin division of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. The residences are mostly on a high bluff known as Cottage Hill, south of the river, and between which and the river is a narrow space occupied by business houses. Oil City is a principal oil market in the Pennsylvania oil regions, immense quantities of this commodity being bought and sold here, which were formerly shipped to Pittsburg by steamboats, but are now carried hence by railroads. The city contains 15 churches, 7 public schools, 5 banks and banking-offices, 7 hotels, 6 oil-refineries, 2 manufactories of engines and boilers, a large tube-mill, and printing-offices which issue 2 daily and 2 weekly newspapers. The river divides the city into two arts, which are connected by 3 passenger bridges, each 1150 feet long, and by a railroad bridge. Oil City was incorporated as a borough in 1862, and as a city in 1870. Pop. in 1880, 7315; in 1890, 10,932.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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