The Alamitos oil well #1 or Alamitos #1 is the site of a famous oil well in Signal Hill, California, the start of the Long Beach oilfield. The spot is...
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Beach Oil Field, brought in by the gusher at the Alamitos oil well #1, made Long Beach a major oil producer; in the 1920s the field was the most productive...
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9 million barrels (1,400,000 m3) of oil, less than half of which was recovered. A short-lived gusher at Alamitos #1 in Signal Hill, California, US in...
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plagued them recently at the Ventura field. Yet the discovery well, Alamitos oil well No. 1 (now a historical landmark at the corner of East Hill Street...
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margin (25,022 to 12,324). Oil was discovered in the Los Angeles metropolitan area when drilling at the Alamitos oil well reached a depth of 3,114 feet...
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Signal Hill, California (section Discovery of oil)
Shell's Alamitos #1 well erupted. The gas pressure was so great the gusher rose 114 ft (35 m) in the air. Soon Signal Hill was covered with over 100 oil derricks...
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the world's first electric-powered full-size helicopter flight at Los Alamitos Army Airfield. The helicopter, a modified Robinson R44 weighed 2,500 pounds...
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The hundreds of oil wells from Wilmington Oil Field provided oil revenues to the City and Port of Long Beach. The first offshore oil well in the harbor...
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Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento Fort Hunter Liggett Fort Irwin Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base Los Angeles AFB Military Ocean Terminal Concord...
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April 30, 2012. AP US History. "The Politics of the Gilded Age" (PDF). Los Alamitos, California: Unified School District. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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