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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.
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 ]
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.
The Visitor Center contains an orientation film, the new permanent exhibit "There's a Drop of Oil and Gas in Your Life Everyday" and a research library. The center also has the Amoskeag steam pumper Colonel Drake (1868) from Titusville and the photographic process wagon like what Mather used on display.
The Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad (reporting mark OCTL) is a tourist railroad that runs from Titusville to Rynd Farm north of Oil City in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The Oil Creek and Titusville Lines (reporting mark OCTL) is the designated operator of the railroad, as well as the freight carrier on the line.
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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.
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 ...