Titusville, Pennsylvania
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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. Titusville is known as the birthplace of the American oil i
Titusville in August 2016
Downtown Titusville, PA in 2014
Drake Well
University of Pittsburgh at Titusville
Edwin Drake
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Edwin Laurentine Drake, also known as Colonel Drake, was an American businessman and the first American to successfully drill for oil.
Titusville, Pennsylvania
…to extract it. Its main use at that time had been as a medicine for both animals and humans. In the late 1850s, the Seneca Oil Company (formerly the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company) sent Col. Edwin L. Drake to start drilling on a piece of leased land just south of Titusville, near what is now Oil Creek State Park. In the summer…
A 19th century illustration of Drake
Drake with the nation's first oil well near Titusville, Pennsylvania
The Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, home where Drake lived the last seven years of his life, from 1873 until 1880
Drake's grave and memorial in Titusville, Pennsylvania