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Oil production was centered in the valleys of Oil Creek and the Allegheny River when the 250 barrel-a-day Frazier Well drilled along Pithole Creek came in. Numerous other gusher wells in this isolated part of Venango County attracted thousands of fortune-seekers to the area and a town called Pithole City sprang up on the Thomas Holmden Farm in May of 1865. Today, little remains of this boomtown but cellar holes in a hillside meadow. Visitors may walk the grassy paths of former streets and view a scale model of the city at its peak in the Visitor Center.

Location: Hwy 227, Plumer Pennsylvania Telephone 814-827-2797

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