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Heckert Oil Pumping Jack, 0.6 mile North of Connoquenessing Creek, 0.15 mile East of Powder Mill Creek, Renfrew, Butler County, PA
Summary
Significance: Historically significant as a relatively rare survivor of the early-twentieth-century oil industry in southwestern Pennsylvania; manufactured by a short-lived, small manufacturing division of the T.W. Phillips Gas & Oil Company. Technologically significant as representing an early gear-driven pumping jack, designed during a period of great pumping jack experimentation in the early 1900s.
Survey number: HAER PA-280
Building/structure dates: ca. 1908 Initial Construction
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Date
1908
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Tritch, Stephen T
Tritch, Lynn P
T. W. Phillips Manufacturing Company
Heckert, Michael S
E. A. Bream Oil Company
Bald Ridge Oil Field
Engineering-Science, Chartered, contractor
Lee, Sulah, field team
Petraglia, Michael, project manager
CNG Transmission Corporation, sponsor
Martin, Christopher, historian
Alexander, Frances, historian
Pappas, Madeleine, historian
Gilbert, Patrice, photographer
Location
Renfrew, 40.82172, -79.97688
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
