Cemetery Archives | Travellenz https://travellenz.in/tag/cemetery/ Mon, 10 May 2021 11:43:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://travellenz.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-TravelLenzFavicon-512x512-32x32.png Cemetery Archives | Travellenz https://travellenz.in/tag/cemetery/ 32 32 Digboi: Remnants of a War and Oil Well https://travellenz.in/digboi-war-oil-well/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=digboi-war-oil-well https://travellenz.in/digboi-war-oil-well/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:20:49 +0000 http://travellenz.wordpress.com/?p=281  So, how did Asia’s first oil refinery get its name? You heard it right – Digboi. The year: 1882 Engineers, commissioned by the Assam Railways and Trading Company (AR&TC), were using elephants to haul the tracks amidst the swampy dense forests of north-eastern Assam. They were extending the railway line from Dibrugarh to Margherita. The AR&TC [...]

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