Oil Creek State Park
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Oil Creek State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 6,250 acres in Cherrytree, Cornplanter and Oil Creek Townships, Venango County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is adjacent to Drake We
A historic recreation of a wooden oil derrick at Oil Creek State Park
Barges like this were filled with oil barrels and floated down Oil Creek.
An interpretative trail guides visitors past the remnants of the former oil boomtown of Petroleum Center.
Oil Creek in the park
Drake Well Museum
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The Drake Well Museum and Park is a museum in Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania that chronicles the birth of the American oil industry in 1859 by Colonel Edwin Drake. The museum collects and preserves
Oil Creek State Park
…6,250 acres (2,529 ha) in Cherrytree, Cornplanter and Oil Creek Townships, Venango County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is adjacent to Drake Well Museum, the site of the first successful commercial oil well in the United States, that was drilled under the direction of Colonel Edwin Drake. Oil Creek State…
Replica Drake Well engine house and derrick
View of well (drivepipe) from the interior of the engine house