The oil-boom town in western Pennsylvania where several of the Masseth brothers went during the mid-1860s, running the United States Hotel and a liquor store before the town's collapse.
Pithole, Pennsylvania
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The Masseth Brothers in Pithole
One sentence in Edward Adam Masseth's diary — 'the big oil excitement at Pithole PA' — leads to the boomtown where three Masseth brothers opened a liquor store in 1866.