Covering a wide range of museums, historic locations, and other oddities revolving around crude oil, natural gas, and the wildcatters who risked it all to make it big.
The Olinda Oil Museum & Trail spans 12 acres and preserves the first (and still) operating Olinda oil well, a records vault, a yard of old equipment, and the operation’s field house, which now houses a small museum open on Sunday’s and Wednesdays. The museum is located in present day Brea, a city named from the spanish word…
In the heart of Los Angeles is one of the most popular and notable deposits of oil that bubbles to the surface as the La Brea Tar Pits. Like the city of the same name, Brea refers to the spanish word for natural asphalt or tar. The Land The land was part of a Mexican…
The California Oil Company Museum is an educational and historic site located in the Union Oil Building in Santa Paula, California. Displays span subjects from oil history, its uses, the development of oil drilling technology, and the companies that distributed it. The museum is open to the public with a suggested $4 donation per person….
