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Title
Thorla-McKee
Well
Subject
Business and Labor
Geography and Natural Resources
Wells
Salt industry and trade
Oil industry
Place
Caldwell (Ohio)
Noble County (Ohio)
Description
The
original
hollow
sycamore
log
that was
used
as a
casing
for a
salt
water
and
oil
well
drilled
by
Silas
Thorla
and
Robert
McKee
in
1816
is
shown
here. The
well
,
located
near
present-day
Caldwell
,
Ohio
,
continues
to
produce
salt
water
,
oil
, and
natural
gas
through
the
twenty-first
century
, but in
low
quantities
. The
well
is
approximately
32
"
(81.28
cm)
in
diameter
. In
1814
,
Silas
Thorla
and
Robert
McKee
drilled
Ohio's
first
oil
well
to
produce
salt
,
which
could
be
sold
for
$2
a
bushel
. In
addition
to
salt
,
however
, the
well
also
produced
oil
and
natural
gas
. The
salt
water/oil
mixture
was
placed
in a
large
kettle
overnight
and the
next
day
a
wool
blanket
was
placed
on
top
of the
kettle
to
absorb
the
oil
that
came
to the
top
. Then the
salt
water
was
boiled
until
the
water
was
evaporated
. The
furnaces
were
kept
burning
24
hours
a
day
. The
salt
was
scraped
and
placed
in
bags
or
barrels
to be
sold
.
Creator
Thorla, Silas
McKee, Robert
Date of Original
1816
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution
Noble County Historical Society
Rights
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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
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om2790_2612676_001.tif
Image Height
1350
Image Width
2370
File Size
1046.179 KB
Format
picture
;
objects
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