Boom Town Display

Early photographs from the first decade of Petrolia's boom (1860 to 1870) show the main street was a sea of mud. The bars, barber shops and wooden hotels illustrate that it was essentially a man's town.

. . . back to the self-guided tour map

or continue on to:

l Imperial Oil Display l Boom Town Display l Technology Display
l Petrolia's Foreign Drillers l Gum Bed l Cribbed Well
l Spring Pole l Canadian Rig l Drilling/Fishing Tools
l The Fairbank Well l Holding/Separating Tanks l Field Wheel
l The Fritzgerald Rig l Brine Disposal Well