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Oil rigs

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Black paper page from a photo album with three attached photographs of oil drilling derricks or oil rigs. Handwritten text beneath the photos read "On AJ Konnings farm, On Henry[?] Johnson's farm, On Koning's, Oil wells during drilling summer 1938
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cr1937111901AlleganOil5thInState.jpg; Allegan Co. 5th in state production of crude oil Michigan's Petroleum Industry Historical Marker near Clare, Michigan; In 1860 State Geologist Alexander Winchell reported that oil and gas deposits lay under Michigan's surface. First commercial production was at Port Huron where 22 wells were drilled, beginning in 1886. Total output was small. Michigan's first oil boom was at Saginaw, where production began in 1925. About 300 wells were drilled here by 1927, when Muskegon's

2024.04.21

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A 1937 Commercial Record article touts Allegan County's potential for crude oil production and a map on a 1961 historical marker records an oil field in Overisel in 1938.

Winthers, Sally

Album page. Each individual photo is 4.5x2.75"

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075 Historical Photographs

Koning, Arie James "Ira" 1883-1975

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