Marker Unveiled at Cuba NY honoring Seneca oil legacy
A crowd of over five thousand gathered at a woodland spring near Cuba New York for the unveiling of a bronze tablet marking the Seneca oil spring. The stone tablet links early local springs to the rise of the petroleum industry in the United States and notes key dates and figures in the region’s oil history. Representatives of the Seneca Nation and Franciscan monks attended, alongside oil industry figures from across the country, tying legends to a national enterprise now employing nearly one million people with vast infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Cuba
United States
New York
North American
Seneca Oil Spring and Early American Oil History
A long narrative traces the Seneca oil spring near Coha with its old name Fontaine de Hitume and the 1656 Jesuit notes. It cites Father d Alhan as an early observer, the Drake well's 1859 discovery in Titusville, and the mass growth and decline of oil towns like Pithole and Titusville. It recounts Native claims to the spring, treaty protections, and the monument era marking Black Gold, tying the site to American petroleum lore and regional development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long House
Iroquiis
Joseph de la Teche d’Allion
New York
Turenia
Angiers
France
Coha
Father d'Alban
America
Galinee
Great Lakes
Fontaine de Bitaine
Pierre Francois Xavier de Chirlevaix
Fontaine de Hitume
Joneaire
Fort Niagara
Titusville
Drake
New Haven
C Company
Edwin L. Drake
Pennsylvania
William Smith
Galt
William Smith, Jr
James Smith
Sam Smith
Sam Smitth
Iran
Drake Sterek
Geld Lack Dake
Surtees
Ma Atines
Ciles
Pithule
Tassie
Wansients I
Ithole
Mitead
Pithole
Oxehince
Philadelpha
Anttehireh
Pennsyvania Riles
Petro
Lowa
Abetler
Amrlpaany Welles
Anid
Eet
Daria
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Drake Monument
Yale University Press
Spring and
Cube
N. Y
Monment
Elmer J. Conrath
Colin
Ita
Joseph de la Roache dAlifon
Paul le Jeune
Janeaire
William Johnson
Big Tree
Benjamin Auliman
Yale University
University of the State of New York
New York State Oil Producers Association
Arthur Parker
Rochester
Xii. Y
Trequois
Gona Goose
Wundy
Tie
Skinny Windy
Titusville, PA
Blienus Tituson
Oflspring
Seneca Indian Oil Spring
Cuba, Nw
Cubaln
Bayer ‘Aspiri
Bayer Aspirin
Bayer
Elyy
Ull Jselfi Shaw
Castor
Fletcher
Michael Navy
Wickenldy
Scotland
Lis
Earth
Ida Bailey Allen
Ne 37
Corn Products Refining CO
Illinois Street
Chicago, Ill
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