On this day 150 years ago—August 27, 1859—Colonel Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, PA, with the world’s first oil well. That single-sentence description of what occurred at Titusville ...

Quoted in Paul H. Giddens, The Birth of the Oil Industry, (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1938), p. 48. Colonel Edwin Drake and the First Oil Well Colonel Edwin Drake is famous for drilling the ...

Drake is considered to be the father of the modern oil industry. He died in 1880 and is buried in Titusville's Woodlawn Cemetery. Visitors leave the replica of Col. Edwin Drake's first oil well on ...

Struck oil!” The blacksmith was W. H. (“Uncle Billy”) Smith, who had helped “Colonel”* Edwin L. Drake drill the nation’s first commercial oil well, thus launch the U.S. petroleum industry.

In 1857 Edwin L Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville Pennsylvania Overcoming many other obstacles Drakes innovation to shield the well from water entry by using a ...

Bipartisan legislation to name the building at 135 W. Spring St. as the Edwin L. Drake Post Office Building was sponsored by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of Butler County, R-16th Dist., and signed into ...