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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 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 Pennsylvania Routes 8 and 27.
Drake hired a salt well driller, William A. Smith, in the summer of 1859. After many difficulties, they finally drilled a commercially successful well on August 27. It was an event that changed the world, beginning with the surrounding vicinity. [2] Barges like this were filled with oil barrels and floated down Oil Creek.
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Roderick Gordon dressed as one of his characters, Drake, from the Tunnels books Roderick had always been interested in archaeology and palaeontology . Amongst his ancestors (which include R.D. Blackmore and Matthew Arnold ) was William Buckland , his great-great-grandfather, who is widely recognized to be one of the forefathers of geology .
This culminated with the establishment of several oil boom towns along the creek. Drake's well produced 25 barrels (4.0 m 3) of oil a day. By 1872, the entire area was producing 15.9 thousand barrels (2,530 m 3) a day. [12] Drake set up a stock company to extract and market the oil.