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2. Drake Well Museum - Wikipedia

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   The museum collects and preserves related artifacts. The reconstructed Drake Well demonstrates the first practical use of salt drilling techniques for the extraction of petroleum through an oil well. A historic site, the museum is located in Cherrytree Township, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Titusville on Drake Well Road, situated between ...

3. Drake Well - Wikipedia

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   The well is the centerpiece of the Drake Well Museum located 3 miles (5 km) south of Titusville. Drilled by Edwin Drake in 1859, along the banks of Oil Creek, it is the first commercial oil well in the United States. Drake Well was listed on National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

4. Titusville, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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   The reconstructed Drake Well demonstrates the first practical use of salt drilling techniques for the extraction of petroleum through an oil well. A historic site, the museum is located in Cherrytree Township, 2 miles (4.8 km) south of Titusville on Drake Well Road, situated between Pennsylvania Routes 8 and 27. The museum is accredited by the ...

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   Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad. Address: 49 S. Perry St., Titusville. Phone: 814-677-2192. Website:Octrr.org. All aboard! Along with Drake Well, the Oil Creek Valley is famous for its history and ...

6. How can the Erie region recover? Find new ways to ... - AOL

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   In this file photo, visitors leave the replica of Col. Edwin Drake's first oil well on the grounds of the Drake Well Museum near Titusville on August 23, 2021. The site south of Erie County marks ...

7. List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Venango County

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   Drake Well Park: March 20, 1947: At Drake Well Museum, SE of Titusville: Roadside Business & Industry, Oil & Gas First Oil Pipeline: November 15, 1954: Rouseville Road (PA 227), 4 miles southwest of Pleasantville: Roadside

8. Oil Creek State Park - Wikipedia

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   Titusville grew from 250 residents to 10,000 almost overnight and in 1866 it incorporated as a city. The first oil millionaire, a resident of Titusville, was Jonathan Watson who owned the land where Drake's well was drilled. The same land is now part of Oil Creek State Park and the Drake Well Museum. [2]

9. Oil Region National Heritage Area - Wikipedia

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   The national heritage area commemorates and promotes the region surrounding Edwin Drake's oil well of 1859 near Titusville, which gave rise to the modern oil industry. [1] The national heritage area includes all of Venango County and a portion of Crawford County, including Titusville and Oil Creek Township, [1] in and around the Oil Creek ...