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• TOWN OF HUME MUSEUM

• ALMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY WEBSITE

• Thelma Rogers Genealogical & Historical Society - Wellsville Page

• B.R.A.G. HISTORICAL SOCIETY

• RUSHFORD Historical Society, Inc. Page

• 2004 Town of Wirt Map - Roads, Communities/Villages, Cemeteries & more.... (Published by Allegany County Dept of Public Works; For a free Allegany County Travel and Outdoor Guide call 1-800-836-1869, or visit web site at www.alleganyco.com )

• Richburg History -- Discovery of Oil

• John P. Herrick's "Interview with Charles F. Fox"; Was Postmaster at Richburg in The Days of the Oil Boom Back in the Eighties.

• "Business" --from The Oil Echo, Tuesday, March 28, 1882

• "Not Dead, But Sleeping";  THE OIL ECHO; "The Representative Journal of the Allegany Field" - 1882 Richburg Newspaper Last Edition

• Rise and Fall of Richburg; 1897 Clipping

• Street Railroad to Bolivar in Contemplation.

• Richburg Hill Well Was Basis for Rush To Area Rich In Oil.

• Scio Farmer at 80 Recalls Exciting Richburg Oil Rush

• AT RICHBURG - Oil Talk, 1881

• A DESCRIPTION OF UTOPIA

• PHOTOS FROM THE UTOPIA FARM IN THE TOWN OF WIRT

• Stories, Diaries, Photos & Such; From Utopia Farm, East Notch Valley-Town of Wirt; Surnames: LESUER, WELLS, SEAMAN, KENYON, LANTS,  AXTELL, APPLEBEE, MAXON, RANDOLPH, CHAMPLIN, STANTON, ROWLEY, WILLARD, RENWICK, CASE, BRACY, DAVIDSON, PLACE

• Inavale Grange; from a speech given in 1986 by Howard Wightman

• Schools of the Town of Wirt

• "THE EFFECT OF STRIKING OIL"-A Village of Two Hundred Inhabitants Increasing to Five Thousand in Six Months

• THE RICHBURG DISCOVERY WELL - The Story of the well that opened the Richburg Field; Names from Wirt, Alma, Allentown, Bolivar & Wellsville

• Oil Boom Highlights - Richburg History

• "Happy Jack" --360 lb. Cop!!

•  "We Served" A Record of the part played in World War II by the Men and Women of the Richburg-Wirt Community

• PHOTO ALBUM of Ray Payne - Curator,Pioneer Oil Museum in Bolivar (4 pages of over 100 photos)

•  c.1883 OIL Section Map - Allegany Field Petrolia, Alma, Allentown, Pikeville, Richburg, Bolivar, South Bolivar, Little Genesee, Carver, Ceres, and More!

•  BRAG - Bolivar, Richburg, Allentown, Genesee Historical Preservation Society Website Pages (Offsite, Hosted at "Happenings in the Hills")