Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

6-7-2012

Comments

This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 457. Photograph of letter, 15 March 1829, from Thomas Ellison, Burkesville, Kentucky, to Edmund Rogers, Mount Hope, Kentucky, which describes a producing oil well at Burkesville, reputedly the first in the United States.

Disciplines

History | United States History

SC 457 ELLISON typescript.doc (33 kB)
Thomas Ellison letter typescript

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