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The Tar Pits in 1910. Oil derricks can be seen in the background. The Chumash and Tongva people used tar from the pits to build plank boats by sealing planks of California redwood trunks and pieces of driftwood from the Santa Barbara Channel, which they used to navigate the California coastline and Channel Islands.
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These are election results in 1901 to the United States House of Representatives: This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( November 2019 )
On January 10, 1901, a well at Spindletop struck oil ("came in"). The Spindletop gusher blew for 9 days at a rate estimated at 100,000 barrels (16,000 m 3 ) of oil per day. [ 3 ] Gulf Oil and Texaco , now part of Chevron Corporation , were formed to develop production at Spindletop. [ 4 ]
The line was reorganized in 1901 as the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway following the inability to negotiate a crossing of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad near Burnham Junction. The reorganized WW&F completed a branch line from Weeks Mills to the Kennebec River at Winslow but failed to negotiate a connection with the Sandy ...
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On October 29th, 2024, a semi-truck trailer dragging chains along Highway 278 created sparks igniting a grass fire that spread rapidly. The fire, which started 2.1 miles southeast of Dierks near Green Plains Rd, quickly engulfed over 150 acres of forestry spanning over 2 miles from Green Plains Rd to Fellowship Rd. Dierks, Centerpoint, Nashville, Umpire, and Nathan fire departments responded ...
May 9, 1901, headline in The New York Times. The Panic of 1901 was the first stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange, caused in part by struggles between E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, and J. P. Morgan/James J. Hill for the financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway.