A. HANI & CO., Pittsburgh, PA.
Map of Parker's Landing Oil Fields.
Lithographed map with original hand color on onion skin.
Pittsburgh: J.M. Macintosh, c.1870.
31 7/8" x 21 1/4" sheet.

A rare and unusual large scale map of the Parker's Landing Oil Fields done during the Pennsylvania Oil Boom of the late 1800's, which shows extensive detail of land ownership and location of oil wells.

Parker, PA is sometimes referred to as the "Smallest City in the USA." Parker was incorporated as a city on March 1, 1873, by special state legislation in the midst of the northwestern Pennsylvania oil boom. The new municipality was called "Parker" and made up the earlier villages of Parker's Landing (on the Allegheny River) and Lawrenceburg (on the bluff above the river). Residents assumed that Parker would quickly become a major population center, and at the height of the oil boom, the population of Parker grew to over 20,000. The boom quickly went bust, however, and by the 1880s the "city" returned to its historic small village size—a population of approximately 1,000.