Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1876
A well in the nearby Pico Canyon, one of the earliest dug in California, provided approximately 100 barrels of oil per day in the 1870s. The refinery was later bought by John D. Rockefeller's mammoth Standard Oil monopoly.
California Historical Landmark: 172
PCAD id: 6473