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Iron And Oil League
The Iron and Oil League was a minor league baseball league that played in the 1895 and 1898 seasons. League teams were based in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York (state), New York and West Virginia. History The Iron and Oil League was a minor league formed in the 1890s and existing from time to time in the 1890s and 1900s. In 1898 one of the teams was a black team, the Celeron Acme Colored Giants. It is sometimes abbreviated as IOL. Honus Wagner and his brother Butts Wagner played in the league in 1895. Among other major leaguers, Jack Glasscock and Buck Weaver also played in the league. Cities represented *Bradford, PA: Bradford Pirates 1898 *Celoron, New York, Celoron, NY: Celeron 1895; Celoron Acme Colored Giants 1898 *Dunkirk, NY & Fredonia, NY: Dunkirk-Fredonia 1898 *Franklin, PA: Franklin Braves 1895 *Meadville, PA: Meadville 1898 *New Castle, PA: New Castle Quakers 1895 *Oil City, PA: Oil City Oilers 1895, 1898 *Olean, NY: Olean 1898 *Sharon, PA: Sharon 1895 *Titusv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celoron, New York
Celoron ( ) is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Ellicott and sits on the west boundary of the city of Jamestown. The population of Celoron was 1,082 at the 2020 census. History Celoron Park was an amusement park, built by the Broadhead family in either 1893 or 1894, prior to the formation of the village. Celoron Park was designed with inspiration from the amusement parks at Coney Island and Atlantic City. Celoron Park closed in 1962. The village of Celoron was incorporated in 1896. The name of the village comes from that of the French officer and explorer of Ohio – Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville. Beginning in 1898, it was the home of the Acme Giants baseball team. Geography Celoron is located in the western part of the town of Ellicott at (42.106778, -79.281414), on the south shore of Chautauqua Lake. It is bordered to the east by the city of Jamestown and to the south and west by unincorporated parts of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uhrichsville, OH
Uhrichsville( ) is a city in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,413 at the 2010 census. Claymont City School District is the major education provider for the city of Uhrichsville and for the village of Dennison, Ohio. The Twin cities is a nickname used to describe Uhrichsville and Dennison because they are adjacent and similar. Geography Uhrichsville is located at (40.395208, -81.349226). The area surrounding Uhrichsville is moderately flat. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. History Although the town was laid out under the name of "Waterford" in 1833, it was informally known as "Uhrich's Mill" after Michael Uhrich, a local mill operator, and in 1839 the town was officially renamed Uhrichsville. It benefitted from the Ohio and Erie Canal and later from the Pan Handle Railroad. Railroad shops built at nearby Dennison later added further to Uhrichsville's growth. Uhrichsville Water Park opened in Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennison, OH
Dennison is a village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,655 at the 2010 census. History The confluence of coal and railroads drove the development of Dennison. It is located at the midpoint between Pittsburgh and Columbus -- from each. At the time, locomotives needed water every , so Dennison was a natural refilling location. The Dennison Coal Company had mines south of town. In 1864, The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway decided to locate the country's largest railroad shops and yards in Dennison. Dennison Land Company laid out the town of Dennison in 1865 and purchased land expressly for the town. The railyards spanned . Demand for passenger service led to construction of a station in 1873. Thousands moved to the area for jobs in the roundhouses, turntables and foundries. At its peak, 3,000 people worked in the railyards. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company eventually subsumed the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway. The vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titusville, PA
Titusville is a city in the far eastern corner of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,601 at the 2010 census and an estimated 5,158 in 2019. Titusville is known as the birthplace of the American oil industry and for a number of years was the leading oil-producing region in the world. Titusville was notable for its lumber industry, including 17 sawmills, as well as its plastic and toolmaking industries. History The area was first settled in 1796 by Jonathan Titus. Within 14 years, others bought and improved land lying near his, along the banks of what is now Oil Creek. Titus named the village Edinburg(h), but as it grew, the settlers began to call the hamlet Titusville. The village was incorporated as a borough in 1849. It was a slow-growing community until the 1850s, when petroleum was discovered in the region. Oil was known to exist there, but there was no practical way to extract it. Its main use at that time had been as a medicine for both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon, PA
Sharon is a city in western Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city, located along the banks of the Shenango River on the state border with Ohio, is about northeast of Youngstown, about southeast of Cleveland and about northwest of Pittsburgh. The population was 13,147 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area. History The Sharon area was first settled in 1795. It was incorporated as a borough on October 6, 1841, and incorporated as a city on December 17, 1918. The city operated under the Pennsylvania third-class city code until 2008, at which point it adopted a home rule charter under which the elected position of mayor was replaced with a hired city manager and financial officer. The founding families of Sharon first settled on a flat plain bordering the Shenango River, between two hills on the southwestern edge of what is today Sharon's downtown business district. According to local legend, the community received its nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olean, NY
Olean ( ) is a city in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. Olean is the largest city in Cattaraugus County and serves as its financial, business, transportation and entertainment center. It is one of the principal cities of the Southern Tier region of Western New York. The city is surrounded by the town of Olean and is located in the southeastern part of Cattaraugus County. The population was 13,437 in 2019 per the United States Census Bureau. History The first European in the area was possibly Joseph de La Roche Daillon, a missionary and explorer from Canada. La Roche reported on the presence of oil near Cuba, the first petroleum sighting in North America. At that time the area was a part of the territory of the Wenrohronon or Wenro Indians, an Iroquois speaking people. In 1643, the Wenro tribes became the first victims of a series of brutal conflicts known as the Second Beaver War. The area was first settled by Europeans around 1765, called by the Indian name '' Isc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil City Oilers
The Oil City Oilers was a minor league baseball team located in Oil City, Pennsylvania between 1940 and 1951. The team played in the Pennsylvania State Association from 1940 to 1942, and later moved to the Middle Atlantic League after World War II ended. The team began in 1940 when the Pittsburgh Pirates relocated their affiliate, the McKeesport Little Braves, to Oil City. The team stayed affiliated with the Pirates until 1947, when it began an affiliation with the Chicago White Sox. That year, the team's name was changed to the Oil City Refiners. The team's name was changed one last time to the Oil City A's, when they merged with the Youngstown A's, in 1951. The team the folded, along with the league, at the end of that season. The Oilers name originated from an earlier team that represented the city between 1895 and 1907, in the Iron And Oil League and the Interstate League. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil City, PA
Oil City is a city in Venango County, Pennsylvania known for its prominence in the initial exploration and development of the petroleum industry. It is located at a bend in the Allegheny River at the mouth of Oil Creek. Initial settlement of Oil City was sporadic, and tied to the iron industry. After the first oil wells were drilled in 1861, it became central to the petroleum industry while hosting headquarters for the Pennzoil, Quaker State, and Wolf's Head motor oil companies. Tourism plays a prominent role in the region by promoting oil heritage sites, nature trails, and Victorian architecture. The population was 9,608 at the 2020 census, and it is the principal city of the Oil City, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. History The Cornplanter Tract and Oil Creek Furnace In 1796, the state of Pennsylvania gave Cornplanter, chief of the Wolf Band of the Seneca nation, of land along the west bank of the Allegheny River in Warren County, Pennsylvania, as well as a small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Castle Quakers
The New Castle Quakers were a minor league baseball team based in New Castle, Pennsylvania. The Quakers played as members of the 1895 Iron and Oil League before becoming members of the Class D level Interstate League from 1896 to 1900, winning the 1899 league title. The New Castle Quakers hosted home minor league games at Pearson Park through 1897 before moving to the new Cascade Park for the next two seasons. History 1895 Iron & Oil League The city first hosted minor league baseball in 1883, when the New Castle "Nashannocks" team played as members of the Western Interstate League. In 1884, the team continued play in the Iron & Oil Association, finishing in fourth place with a 20–24 record. The New Castle "Quakers" resumed minor league play in 1895, as the team became charter members of the eight-team, Class C level Iron and Oil League. The Franklin Braves, Oil City Oilers, Sharon, Titusville, Twin Cities Twins, Warren and Wheeling Nailers teams joined New Castle in beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Castle, PA
New Castle is a city in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Lawrence County. It is northwest of Pittsburgh, and near the Pennsylvania–Ohio border, just southeast of Youngstown, Ohio. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 21,926. It is the commercial center of a fertile agricultural region, officially the New Castle micropolitan area, which had a population of 86,070 in 2020. New Castle also anchors the northwestern part of the Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton combined area. History In 1798, John Carlysle Stewart, a civil engineer, traveled to western Pennsylvania to resurvey the "donation lands", which had been reserved for veterans of the Revolutionary War. He discovered that the original survey had neglected to stake out approximately at the confluence of the Shenango River and Neshannock Creek, at that time a part of Allegheny County. The Indian town of Kuskusky was listed on early maps in this location. Claiming the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadville, PA
Meadville is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Pennsylvania. The city is within of Erie and within of Pittsburgh. It was the first permanent settlement in Northwestern Pennsylvania. The population was 13,388 at the 2010 census. The city of Meadville is the principal city of the Meadville, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. As well as one of two cities, the other being Erie, that make up the larger Erie-Meadville, PA Combined Statistical Area. History Meadville was settled on May 12, 1788, by a party of settlers led by David Mead. Its location was chosen well, for it lies at the confluence of Cussewago Creek and French Creek, and was only a day's travel by boat to the safety of Fort Franklin. Their settlement was in a large meadow, first cleared by Native Americans led by Chief Custaloga, and well suited for growing maize. The village Custaloga built here was known as Cussewago. Custaloga's name first appeared in western Pennsylvania's history in Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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