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Kier Refinery PA1096 Print E-mail

Using a five-barrel still, Samuel M. Kier erected on this site about 1854 the first commercial refinery to produce illuminating oil from petroleum. He used crude oil from salt wells at Tarentum.
Small park near Bigelow Sq(off Bigelow Blvd.), Pittsburgh. Allegheny County Pennsylvania.

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