#pithole

Thanks. This was a random trip in which I ended up walking through neighborhoods I’ve never seen prior. I suppose when you focus on industrial decay there’s a tendency to ignore the surrounding neighborhoods. That said, there’s significant history in this oil region. I was seriously surprised at the number of large, ornate homes I discovered. If you ever make it to the area you should also visit the Drake Well Museum, and perhaps the Pithole City Visitor Center. Pithole itself is mind-boggling, swelling to a city of about 15,000 in a matter of a few years and then going bust soon after. 

Between Oil City and Titusville, there was a boomtown called Pithole, Pennsylvania. When the oil dried up, the people left. I believe you can still tour the area, but there’s not much to see, no buildings remain. The bottom image is a postcard of a diorama of what Pithole used to look like. The back of the postcard reads: PITHOLE DIORAMA Famous Pithole, The most famous of the oil industry’s boomtowns, is depicted in this diorama at the Drake Well Museum. Home for 15,000 oilmen, the city grew and died within a few years.

American vintage postcard

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