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Louisiana's oil heritage, Tonja Koob Marking and Jennifer Snape

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Louisiana's oil heritage, Tonja Koob Marking and Jennifer Snape

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Louisiana's oil heritage

Oclc number

794708060

Responsibility statement

Tonja Koob Marking and Jennifer Snape

Series statement

Images of America

Summary

Scott Heywood discovered oil in Jennings on September 21, 1901, starting a new industry for Louisiana. From the heart of Acadiana, oil fever spread north to Caddo and Pine Island, south to Hackberry and Cameron, east to Barataria and Lafourche, and into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil industry created a worker class in Louisiana that had not previously existed. Towns, complete with schools, churches, and grocery stores, developed in oil fields; in fact, cabins with clothes hanging on the line to dry were adjacent to derricks and open oil pits. Today, families proudly recount the number of their generations that have worked in the "oil patch," and workers continue to contribute to a current crude oil production of nearly 200,000 barrels per day. The legacy of Louisiana's first oil fields is evident in towns like Jennings, Evangeline, Oil City, Morgan City, Lake Charles, and Cameron, and the history of that once nascent industry is a permanent part of the culture of Louisiana

Table Of Contents

Acadiana Louisiana -- Northwest Louisiana -- Coastal and offshore Louisiana -- Oil transportation -- Life in the camps and celebrating the oil industry

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Images of America : Louisiana's oil heritage

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