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Blue plaque № 28389

Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Kier Refinery. Using a five-barrel still, Samuel M. Kier erected on this site about 1854 the first commercial refinery to produce illuminating oil from petroleum. He used crude oil from salt wells at Tarentum.

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