Oil Creek State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 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 Park follows Oil Creek, between Titusville and Oil City, and is on Pennsylvania Route 8. While the creek is the park's main recreational attraction, it also contains the sites of the first oil boomtown and much of Pennsylvania's original oil industry. The park contains a museum, tableaux, and trails to help visitors understand the history of the oil industry there, and an excursion train.
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
Cornplanter Township, Pennsylvania
Cornplanter Township is a township in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,317 at the 2020 census, a decrease from 2,487 at the 2010 and 2,687 at the 2000 census.
The ghost town of Pithole in Cornplanter Township
