Plat of Mount Pleasant [Mich.] property, Dow Chemical Company, showing well location, 1918.

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Plat of Mount Pleasant [Mich.] property, Dow Chemical Company, showing well location, 1918.

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Plat showing oil wells, drawn by A.[rthur] Beutel on January 17, 1918 of Union Township, Isabella County (Mich.) Township 14N- Range4W, later the site of Albar oil well, the largest oil well in Michigan. The plat is on cloth and shows the Chippewa River located between tracks of the Pere Marquette Railroad and the Ann Arbor Railroad Company. The map is colored yellow, orange, and gray with a scale of one inch equals 660 feet. The map measures 18 inches x 24 inches. A note on the map reads "Superceded by dwg. [drawing] E2-2623." In 2005 the map was conserved at the Northeast Documentation Conservation Center.

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Dow chemical company

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Beutel was the head of the Texas Division in the 1940s for Dow Chemical Company. (This information is from the donor form.) From the description of Plat of Mount Pleasant [Mich.] property, Dow Chemical Company, showing well location, 1918. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 256867304 Dow Chemical Company was founded by Herbert H. Dow in 1897. Headquartered in Midland, Michigan, the company was initially founded upon a method invented by Dow for extracting bromi...

Pere Marquette Railroad

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Ann Arbor Railroad Company

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