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Pithole, or Pithole City, is a ghost town in Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States, about 6 miles (9.7 km) from Oil Creek State Park and the Drake Well Museum, the site of the first commercial oil well in the United States. [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Venango County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
Pithole: Venango County: Cornplanter Township: an oil drilling ghost town Poe Mills: Centre County: A former logging town, now the site of Poe Paddy State Park. [73] Port Perry: Allegheny County: North Versailles Township: 1945 Powelton: Centre County: a coal mining ghost town [citation needed] Powelton: Huntingdon County: a coal mining ghost ...
A city style marker in Philadelphia, the state's largest city Clickable map of Pennsylvania counties. This is a list of Pennsylvania State Historical Markers which were first placed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1914 and are currently overseen by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) as part of its Historical Markers Program.
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 American Alliance of Museums. Tarbell House; Pithole Museum & Visitor Center- Legendary boomtown that was destroyed by a fire [15]
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.
Location of Venango County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Venango County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Pithole is a ghost town in Cornplanter Township, Venango County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, about 6 miles (9.7 km) from Oil Creek State Park and the Drake Well Museum, the site of the world's first commercial drilled oil well.