The Forgotten Oil Metropolis That Changed America — Oil City, Pennsylvania (1860s)
Автор: Forgotten America Stories
Загружено: 2026-01-10
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The Forgotten Oil Metropolis That Changed America — Oil City, Pennsylvania (1860s)
Oil City, Pennsylvania was once the center of the world economy. In the 1860s and 70s, this valley produced more oil than the rest of the planet combined. Thirty thousand people lived here. Rockefeller built Standard Oil from crude extracted from this ground. Fortunes were made overnight. The town had more millionaires per capita than San Francisco.
Today, Oil City has ten thousand residents and a poverty rate twice the national average.
This is the story of America's first oil boom, the workers who made it possible, the environmental destruction that came with it, and what happens to communities built on extraction when the resource runs out. It's about wealth that flows away, costs that stay forever, and the pattern of boom-and-bust that still defines American capitalism.
Welcome to Forgotten America Stories.
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