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Tidewater Pipe Company
 
By Cosmos Mariner, August 25, 2019
Pioneer Pipeline Marker
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1 ► Pennsylvania, Carbon County, Jim Thorpe, Lehigh Township — Pioneer Pipeline —
”My grandfather, Samuel Rice got a job as a watchman after the pipeline was built in 1886. In an emergency he could turn off the valve at either end of the bridge from his house. My mother, Ethel Rice Jenkins, tells how the house was in the . . . — — Map (db m153420) HM
2 ► Pennsylvania, McKean County, Coryville — Tidewater Pipe Company —
Opposite here was station no.1 of the first pipe line to carry oil across the Alleghenies. Built by an early competitor of Standard Oil, it began May 28, 1879, to pump oil 109 miles to Williamsport, Pennsylvania. — — Map (db m59155) HM
3 ► Pennsylvania, Crawford County, Titusville — Byron D Benson — (1832-1888) —
A founder and first president of Tidewater Pipe Co., est. 1878. He transformed the shipment of oil with a larger 6-inch pipe that covered greater distances than ever before. This pipeline was first to carry Pa. crude directly to coastal . . . — — Map (db m64972) HM
4 ► Pennsylvania, Crawford County, Titusville — Tidewater —
In 1865, Titusville residents Byron Benson, Robert Hopkins and David McKelvy started a sawmill in Enterprise (located just outside Titusville) to finance their drilling operation; which they named the Enterprise Oil and Lumber Company. In . . . — — Map (db m134082) HM
 
 
  
 
 
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