Oil & Gas Museum

History tour of the World's First Oil Fields

Stop 2


J.C. Rathbone well at Burning Springs, West Virginia. Now part of the Oil & Gas Museum park in progress. It will be the oldest producing oil well in the world when it is put back in operation. First drilled in July 1860. See this well as it appeared in August 2000.

Early picture of part of Petroleum, West Virginia oilfield from 1860s.

"Girtz" steam locomotive on the Laurel Fork & Sand Hill Railroad servicing Volcano, West Virginia. 1866 to 1899.


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