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2. Titusville, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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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 ]

3. Edwin Drake - Wikipedia

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   During the summer of 1857, illness prevented Drake from carrying on with his job. He retained the privileges of a train conductor, including free travel on the railroads. In 1858, the Drake family relocated to Titusville, Pennsylvania and in 1874 to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

4. Pennsylvania oil rush - Wikipedia

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   The Titusville population exploded from 250 residents to over 10,000 in little more than five years and in 1866 it incorporated as a city. Ironworks were erected to supply drilling tools and eight oil refineries were built between 1862 and 1868. Pithole expanded from four log-cabin farmhouses to a bustling city with over 50 hotels over the span ...

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6. History of the petroleum industry in the United States

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   The Mid-continent area is an area generally including Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Louisiana and the part of Texas away from the Gulf Coast. The first commercially successful oil well drilled in Kansas was the Norman No. 1 near Neodesha, Kansas, on November 28, 1892. Corsicana, Texas, 1894, Texas, plus 44,000,000 barrels (7,000,000 m 3)

7. Oil Creek Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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   Oil Creek, a tributary of the Allegheny River, flows through the township from west to south, passing through Hydetown and Titusville. Pine Creek, a tributary of Oil Creek, and its tributaries, Caldwell Creek, Porky Run, and Stony Hollow Run (both tributaries of Caldwell Creek) drain the northeastern part of the township.