Greenbrier residents would typically trade chickens, eggs, and animal furs for clothing, salt, pepper, coal oil, and medicine.
12.
By the end of 1858, the Downer Company had 50 retorts, and dominated the coal oil business in the northeast.
13.
In 1865 the first shipment of coal oil from the Union Mattole Oil Company was shipped through Ferndale to San Francisco.
14.
It was widely used from 1850 to 1860 in the manufacture of coal oil, which today would be called shale oil.
15.
The whaling business collapsed after 1847, initially with the discovery of other methods to create kerosene, with the first being coal oil.
16.
The oil produced had properties that were unique when compared to other coal oils; it was lighter and had far fewer heteroatom impurities.
17.
During this period, the halls of Wesleyan remained unheated, so stoves were used to warm classrooms, while coal oil lamps were employed for lighting.
18.
The toilets were bowls with lids on top, which the proprietor's wife kept from freezing in the winter by heating them with coal oil lamps.
19.
During World War II now captain of Japanese submarine I-17 he surfaced just off of Coal Oil Point on the evening of February 23, 1942.
20.
The chandelier in the center of the sanctuary had gas light tapers until 1889, when the trustees were empowered to replace coal oil lamps with electricity.
