This Week in Petroleum History, December 1 – 7
December 1, 1865 – Lady Macbeth arrives in Famed Boom Town –
Shakespearean tragedienne Miss Eloise Bridges starred as Lady Macbeth in Pithole, Pennsylvania — America’s first famously notorious oil boom town. A January 1865 oilfield discovery had launched the drilling frenzy that created Pithole, which within a year had 57 hotels, a daily newspaper, and the third busiest post office in Pennsylvania. (more…)
