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"This pipeline crew was laying the line that started on the Newt Michael Farm (Monongalia County) on Little Indian Creek. This line connected with another at Ball (or Bald) Hill and then went on into Pittsburgh. (This pipeline carried natural gas while others carried crude oil.)"

1. Oil and Gas Pipeline Crew, Grant District, Monongalia County, W. Va.

IDNO:
016951
Title:
Oil and Gas Pipeline Crew, Grant District, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900-1905
Description:
"This pipeline crew was laying the line that started on the Newt Michael Farm (Monongalia County) on Little Indian Creek. This line connected with another at Ball (or Bald) Hill and then went on into Pittsburgh. (This pipeline carried natural gas while others carried crude oil.)"
Lot Thomas is identified as being on horseback, and John Jobes is the tallest man (second from right). Second from left is probably Jim Simpson. Two additional men are identified as A.G. Henderson and M.H. Liming. The Methodist church in the background still exists in 2014 (the steeple was later removed). The house at far right was owned by Harley Staggers' family, later owned by Kenneth and Louise Wiley (it was demolished in the 1980s). Also, the building farthest in the background is a grist/sawmill built by John Rion Robinson, a civil war veteran and great grandfather of Jim Slade, a well known Morgantown resident. Few, if any of the other structures are extant, and a coal mine access road now occupies the hill in the background, which is heavily forested. See original for full note on back of photograph.

2. Teamsters Hauling Pipe and Supplies for Drilling Industry Located on Oil Fields Near Sistersville, Wana, W. Va.

IDNO:
047710
Title:
Teamsters Hauling Pipe and Supplies for Drilling Industry Located on Oil Fields Near Sistersville, Wana, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1903
Description:
Lot Thomas is identified as being on horseback, and John Jobes is the tallest man (second from right). Second from left is probably Jim Simpson. Two additional men are identified as A.G. Henderson and M.H. Liming. The Methodist church in the background still exists in 2014 (the steeple was later removed). The house at far right was owned by Harley Staggers' family, later owned by Kenneth and Louise Wiley (it was demolished in the 1980s). Also, the building farthest in the background is a grist/sawmill built by John Rion Robinson, a civil war veteran and great grandfather of Jim Slade, a well known Morgantown resident. Few, if any of the other structures are extant, and a coal mine access road now occupies the hill in the background, which is heavily forested. See original for full note on back of photograph.
Unidentified men and women pose for portrait while standing on an oil storage tank in Morgantown, W. Va.

3. Oil Storage Tank, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
050222
Title:
Oil Storage Tank, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1890-1920
Description:
Unidentified men and women pose for portrait while standing on an oil storage tank in Morgantown, W. Va.
"Girls posed on ladder of oil tank"

4. Men and Women Posed On Ladder of Oil Tank, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
050223
Title:
Men and Women Posed On Ladder of Oil Tank, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1890-1920
Description:
"Girls posed on ladder of oil tank"
Men stand on top of an oil tank in Morgantown, W. Va.

5. Stewartstown Oil Tank, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
050225
Title:
Stewartstown Oil Tank, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1910/01/12
Description:
Men stand on top of an oil tank in Morgantown, W. Va.