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David Renfrew Oil Rig, East side of Connoquenessing Creek, 0.4 mile North of confluence with Thorn Creek, Renfrew, Butler County, PA
Summary
Significance: Historically significant as a relatively rare survivor of the early-twentieth-century oil industry in southwestern Pennsylvania, and for its location in the Bald Ridge oil field. Technologically significant as representative of the first generation of steel derricks and the oldest type of pumping apparatus, relying on a large, belt-driven, wooden band wheel for pumping power.
Survey number: HAER PA-281
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1900 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad
Renfrew, David A
Bald Ridge Oil Field
Oil Well Supply Company
National Supply Company
Engineering-Science, Chartered, contractor
Lee, Sulah, field team
Petraglia, Michael, project manager
CNG Transmission Corporation, sponsor
Martin, Christopher, historian
Alexander, Frances, historian
Pappas, Madeline, historian
Gilbert, Patrice, photographer
Location
Renfrew, 40.80673, -79.96478
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
