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- IDNO:
- 030871
- Title:
- Early Oil Wells Historic Marker on U. S. Route 50 in Ritchie County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1950
- Description:
- "Early Oil Wells--To the south, birthplace of West Virginia's oil industry. On Hughes River oil was found in gravel beds in 1810. As "bank oil," a medicine, Bushrod Creel sold 100 barrels of it per year in 1836. Volcano was one of first boom oil towns."