Notable People, Lost Tales, and Forgotten Facts of Oil City, Louisiana

Dedicated to true, or not-so-true area stories of a humorous bent. Did A U. S. President Once Visit Oil City? Here's an interesti...

Speed (the silent version) Did you perhaps attend when "Speed" opened at the movie theater in Oil City? Huh? What are you talki...

A little over a year and a half ago some of us were reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination and where we were when ...

Here is an account of an 1898 hunting trip to the area that appeared in the October 19, 1907 issue of a now-defunct periodical called ...

Dr. William Rozell McGlathery (undated photo) Education: LSU (1904), Tulane School of Medicine (1908) Parents: James Melkijah ...

Let's give Surry some props. As some of you knew, and those that didn't know now, the present Oil City is comprised of three former...