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Gas Wells

ca. 1900-1920

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Gas Wells
  • Title
  • Gas Wells
  • Date
  • ca. 1900-1920
  • Identifier
  • 20110202-hpicmonroeville-0097
  • Source Identifier
  • 687
  • Description
  • Gas Wells appeared in Monroeville in the early 1900s. The rush to find coal had led to the discovery of pockets of natural gas. The first gas pipeline to Pittsburgh began at the Haymaker Well in Murrysville in the 1870s. In the 1880s, the owners of the Haymaker well, reorganized themselves into the Peoples Natural Gas Company, and more than 100 wells were to be drilled in the region around the Haymaker Well.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Gas wells--Pennsylvania--Monroeville.
    Dwellings--Pennsylvania--Monroeville.
    Monroeville (Pa.)--History.
  • Source
  • hpicmonroeville
  • Contributor
  • Monroeville Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Monroeville Historical Society Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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