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January 1941. "Freedom oil refinery. Freedom, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
are all that remain.
Thanks to Google Maps you can see that Freedom is nowadays dominated by a very large Norfolk Southern railroad yard and the four tanks mentioned above are just north of the Monaca - East Rochester bridge. Looking south from the same bridge onto abandoned roads and overgrown property, where Railroad Street becomes Freedom Road, is where I guess this refinery was located.
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