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Title	Wood County Oil Tanks Under Construction Photographs
Subject	Geography and Natural Resources Petroleum industry Oil well drilling rigs Petroleum workers Construction
Place	Bartleville (Ohio) Wood County (Ohio)
Description	These two photographs show the construction of oil tanks in Wood County, Ohio during the oil boom of the late nineteenth century. The first photograph, which measures 8" x 6.25" (20.32 x 15.88 cm), shows a group of men building the interior of the oil tank, which stored up to 30,000 barrels of oil. The second 8.75" x 6.75" (22.23 x 17.15 cm) photograph shows a group of men in front of another tank in Bartlesville, Ohio. The tank is still under construction. Oil was first discovered in Wood County on December 13, 1886 on a farm just outside of North Baltimore. The second discovery in February 1887 in Henry Township began the oil boom. By 1896, 5,500 wells were in operation, and by 1900 the county had approximately 14,000 wells and 1000 derricks. Unprepared for such rapid development, the county had no adequate provisions for receiving and storing the oil, creating dozens of small oil boomtowns. This oil boom brought a significant amount of growth and affluence to the Wood County, especially to Bowling Green, the county seat. The population of Wood County increased from 17,886 in 1860 to 51,555 by the turn of the century. Around 1910, the production quality and quantity of the oil began to decline. By 1917, northwest Ohio dropped out of the top four oil producing areas in the nation.
Date of Original	1900 circa
Collection	Oil Collection
Source	Audiovisual material 1995.112.37 2001.01.93
Submitting Institution	Wood County Historical Center
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om995_1026351_004
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om995_1026351_004.tif
Image Height	3801
Image Width	4916
File Size	7722.242 KB

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