Cherry Run Valley: Plumer, Pit Hole & Oil City

by Steven Karnes and Steven Karns

Book Overview

In 1855, the Cherry Run Valley was a quiet farming community in Venango County in northwestern Pennsylvania. The small town of Plummerville was the largest settlement in all of Cherry Run. Oil City, then know as Cornplanter, was little more then Hasson's Cornfield and Gristmill. Pithole was the home to several pioneers who had each acquired plots of four hundred acres from the Holland Land Company. However, on August 27-28, 1859, Col. Edwin L. Drake...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738504947
• ISBN13: 9780738504940
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"