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Tag: Baldwin lease Montebello oil field 1910s history

  • Oil Industry

Oil as “A Tremendous Boost to the Little Town of Montebello”: Some Early History of Montebello to 1930, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 15, 2025
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  • Oil Industry

Transformation in the Teens Postview, “In This Lucky Incident There Was a Degree of Poetic Justice”: An Account of the Discovery of Oil at the Temple Lease, Montebello Oil Field, 28 January 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 22, 2023
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