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Cherry Tree Run and Oil Creek Oil Co. - 1865 dated Venango County, Pennsylvania Oil Stock Certificate - Company Relates to Charles Pratt

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Cherry Tree Run and Oil Creek Oil Co. - 1865 dated Venango County, Pennsylvania Oil Stock Certificate - Company Relates to Charles Pratt
State(s): Pennsylvania
Years: 1865

Stock printed by T. Sinclair's Lith., Phil. Civil War Era. Cherrytree Run is a 8.0 mi (12.9 km) long 2nd order tributary to Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania. This run has the same name as the township, Cherrytree Township, that it drains. Cherrytree Run rises on the Prather Creek divide about 0.5 miles west of Toonerville, Pennsylvania. Cherrytree Run then flows south to meet Oil Creek at the Rynd Farm. Cherrytree Run drains 16.9 square miles (44 km2) of area, receives about 44.9 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 429.10, and has an average water temperature of 7.79 °C. The watershed is 75% forested. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherrytree_Run_(Oil_Creek_tributary)

Venango County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 50,454. Its county seat is Franklin. The county was created in 1800 and later organized in 1805. Venango County comprises the Oil City, PA micropolitan statistical area. It is part of the Pittsburgh media market.

Shortly afterward, Henry Huttleston Rogers met oil pioneer Charles Pratt, who purchased the entire output of the tiny Wamsutta Oil Refinery. In 1867, Rogers joined Pratt in forming Charles Pratt and Company, which was purchased by Standard Oil in 1874. Rogers became one of the key men in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. Venango County was created on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny and Lycoming Counties. The name "Venango" is derived from the Native American name of the region, Onenge, meaning Otter. This was corrupted in English as the Venango River. The settlement at its mouth was likewise called Venango, which since March 3, 1871, has been the South Side of Oil City. Venango County was home to an oil boom in the years following discovery of natural oil (petroleum) in the mid-1850s. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venango_County,_Pennsylvania

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