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Midway-Sunset, California's largest oil field
1894
Kern County, California
User:Antandrus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The largest oil field in California and among the largest in the country, worked for over a century. Its tar-thick crude has to be heated underground before it will move, which makes it some of the most energy-expensive oil in America.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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