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Travelers in the Hill City area shouldn't pass up a chance to view the Oil Museum exhibits. Visitors from throughout Kansas, across the United States and from many foreign countries have registered their visits to the museum.
Helping promote the local attraction has been considerable advertising by oil companies, area newspapers, and publications such as "The Kansas Magazine," and "America on Display", a hardcover pictorial reference directory of America's unique and unusual museums and collections, published by Facts On-File Publications.
The museum itself is impossible to miss with a large, old-fashioned iron derrick standing over the building, and a set of bull wheels by the front door. One of Graham County's pioneer oil pumps stands in the yard in front of the museum. This pump, which was set in 1940, was one if the first in use in our area.
Began in 1958 by the Chamber of Commerce, Hill City's Oil Museum tells
the story of oil from beginning to end, particularly
in Graham County, which is one of Kansas' richer oil bearing
counties.
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