Pithole or Pithole City, Pennsylvania is a ghost town located in Venango County, near Oil Creek State Park. The largest oil boomtown in America, Pithole was settled in 1865 due to ...

Pithole or Pithole City, Pennsylvania is a ghost town located in Venango County, near Oil Creek State Park. It was the largest oil boomtown in America due to the ...

Nestled quietly in the rolling hills of Venango County in Northwest Pennsylvania is Pithole, a ghost town located just of Rt. 227 between the small towns of Pleasantville and Plumer.

NAME: Pithole City COUNTY: Venango ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer : COMMENTS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithole,_Pennsylvania

Oil production was centered in the valleys of Oil Creek and the Allegheny River when the 250 barrel-a-day Frazier Well drilled along Pithole Creek came in.

Pithole City was typical of many towns that sprang up and as quickly died around oil sites. Within six months of the discovery of oil in 1865, Pithole's population exploded from ...

Pithole or Pithole City, Pennsylvania is a ghost town located in Venango County, near Oil Creek State Park. The largest oil boomtown in America, Pithole was settled in 1865 due to the ...

BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF PITHOLE CITY, 1865-1866. Reprinted 2006 by Oil Region Alliance ... Ohio Records Oil History Pennsylvania History Publishing Railroad History Sports

Pithole Creek can be accessed from sr1005 the Oleopolis road, sr1004 the Eagle Rock road, and sr1006 which leads to Pithole City. All these roads have intersections on route 227 ...

Pithole or Pithole City, Pennsylvania is a ghost town located in Venango County, near Oil Creek State Park. The largest oil boomtown in America, Pithole was settled in 1865 due to the ...