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My family visited there once on a trip to Chautauqua Institute. From what I recall, the whole area back then was a stinking quagmire of spilled crude oil everywhere, and they were only in the early stages of figuring out what to do with it, anyway. IIRC the stuff was seen as an alternative to whale oil for lamps, altho it didn't burn very cleanly, apparently.