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Titusville is a city in the far eastern corner of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,262 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Titusville is known as the birthplace of the American oil industry and for a number of years was the leading oil-producing region in the world. [ 4 ]
This district encompasses 472 contributing buildings that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Titusville, Pennsylvania including a mix of residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings with the majority built after the Drake Well was established in 1859.
The Drake Well is a 69.5-foot-deep (21.2 m) oil well in Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania, the success of which sparked the first oil boom in the United States.The well is the centerpiece of the Drake Well Museum located 3 miles (5 km) south of Titusville.
The site features a reconstruction of the oil well drilled by Colonel Edwin Drake and working oil field equipment. The museum includes indoor and outdoor exhibits and houses a library of over 2,500 titles, over 1,000 cubic feet (28 m 3) of manuscript material and a photographic collection with over 10,800 images.
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Three of these sites are shared with other states and are credited by the National Park Service as being located in those other states: the Delaware and Hudson Canal (centered in New York but extending into Pennsylvania); the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey (on the Ohio–Pennsylvania border); and the Minisink Archeological Site ...
Titusville Cherrytree Township is a township in Venango County , Pennsylvania , United States. The population was 1,306 at the 2020 census, [ 2 ] a decrease from 1,973 in 2010.
about 2 miles north of Titusville, Pennsylvania • coordinates 41°40′13″N 079°39′46″W / 41.67028°N 79.66278°W / 41.67028; -79.66278