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Title
Charley
Bortel
Headstone
Subject
Geography and Natural Resources
Petroleum industry
Disasters
Fires
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Place
Cygnet (Ohio)
Wood County (Ohio)
Description
This
4
"
x
6
"
(10.16
by
15.24
cm)
photograph
shows
the
headstone
of
Charley
Bortel
,
who
was
killed
by an
explosion
at
Cygnet
,
Ohio
on
September
8
,
1897
.
Cygnet
was a
community
of
oil
derricks
and
hastily-built
buildings
constructed
during
the
oil
boom
. On
September
8
,
1897
, an
oil
derrick
in the
center
of the
town
caught
on
fire
. The
fire
spread
to a
wagon
containing
fifty-two
quarts
of
nitroglycerin
,
which
was
used
to
drill
oil
wells
.
Six
people
,
including
twenty-seven-year-old
Charley
Bortel
, were
killed
and
all
of the
buildings
in the
town
square
were
destroyed
.
Oil
was
first
discovered
in
Wood
County
on
December
13
,
1886
on a
farm
just
outside
of
North
Baltimore
. The
second
discovery
in
February
1887
in
Henry
Township
began
the
oil
boom
. By
1896
,
5,500
wells
were in
operation
, and by
1900
the
county
had
approximately
14,000
wells
and
1000
derricks
.
Unprepared
for
such
rapid
development
, the
county
had
no
adequate
provisions
for
receiving
and
storing
the
oil
,
creating
dozens
of
small
oil
boomtowns
. This
oil
boom
brought
a
significant
amount
of
growth
and
affluence
to the
Wood
County
,
especially
to
Bowling
Green
, the
county
seat
. The
population
of
Wood
County
increased
from
17,886
in
1860
to
51,555
by the
turn
of the
century
.
Around
1910
, the
production
quality
and
quantity
of the
oil
began
to
decline
. By
1917
,
northwest
Ohio
dropped
out
of the
top
four
oil
producing
areas
in the
nation
.
Creator
Oil Collection
Date of Original
1897
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
1995.112.89
Submitting Institution
Wood County Historical Center
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om995_1026327_002.tif
Image Height
3577
Image Width
2395
File Size
2182.802 KB
Format
picture
;
objects
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