FAIRBANK WELL

This well is pumped by a wooden jerker line with power from the Fitzgerald Rig. The horizontal walking beam moves like a teeter-totter. The beam is connected to rods which open and close valves below which pump the oil to the surface. Above the well stands the typical three-pole derrick used to haul the pump rods and tubing out of the well. Once Petrolia was a forest of these black ash derricks. When the swamps were drained and disappeared, so did the black ash tree.

 

 


TOUR OVERVIEW



1. Visitor Parking
2. Entry Office
3. Crude Shop
8. Film Theatre
9. Shelter
10. Train Display Pavillion
11. Gumbed
23. Stable
28. Marthaville United Church
29. McKinley House