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The East Ohio Gas Company built a full-scale commercial liquid natural gas (LNG) plant in Cleveland, Ohio in 1940, just after a successful pilot plant was built by its sister company, Hope Natural Gas Company of West Virginia. This was the first such plant in the world.
Standard Oil refinery in Cleveland, 1899.Ohio was a world leader in oil production in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Ohio oil and natural gas industries employ 14,400 citizens, resulting in $730 million in wages.
As the Cleveland metropolitan area expanded, parts of Warrensville Township were divided among Orange, Shaker Heights, University Heights, and Warrensville Heights. [34] In 1990, Warrensville Township became a paper township when its last unincorporated area was incorporated as the village of Highland Hills . [ 35 ]
In 1886, the productive Karg Well (over 10,000,000 cubic feet/day) and other wells resulted in so much gas being flared that Findlay was known as the "City of Light" and free fuel and light attracted many industries, including glass. [9] By 1888, Findlay was one of the largest glass production centers. The gas was assumed to be "inexhaustible ...
The company, known commonly as Sohio, was founded by John D. Rockefeller. [4] [2] It was established as one of the separate entities created after the 1911 breakup. In the 1960s, The Standard Oil Company partnered with BP, in the development of the Prudhoe Bay, Alaska petroleum reserves and the construction of the Trans Alaska pipeline. The ...
The city of Cleveland is the location of 277 of these properties and districts, including 3 of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the remainder are listed separately. Four properties and districts are split between Cleveland and other parts of the county, and are thus included on both lists.
Higbee's was a department store founded in 1860 in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] In 1987, Higbee's was sold to the joint partnership of Dillard's department stores and Youngstown-based developer, Edward J. DeBartolo. [2]
Squire became director of a wide range of companies, including the Ohio Surety Co. in 1894, [58] the Standard Telegraph & Telephone Co. (with Frank Rockefeller and Louis Severance), [59] the Electrograph Company of America in 1901, [60] and, in the 1910s, the Maynard H. Murch Co. (a Cleveland-based brokerage firm) and the McGraw Tire & Rubber ...