THE FORESTVILLE OIL COMPANY

Remember when they struck oil in Forestville? Be thankful that great-grandpa spent nearly a week’s salary to buy a single $10 share of stock back in 1907. No oil wells pumping crude in the village today? Gee, I guess it didn’t work out.

This ad appeared briefly in the February, 1907 Press Democrat.

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