“Something interesting about Titusville is that Col. Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well there,” said Cené.

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 ...

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It's fantastic." McKinney's ceiling tribute to the oil industry is highlighted by a large painting of Colonel Edwin Drake who drilled the world's first commercial oil well in Titusville in 1859. Drake ...

When Col. Edwin L. Drake first struck oil in Cherrytree Township in western Pennsylvania, America was about to enter the first industrial revolution. One big problem held it back: the need for ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, the making of the modern world was waiting right there under the ground, until Colonel Edwin Drake drilled the world’s first oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859. Oil was ...

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.

The event will be at 6 p.m. Oct. 23 at at the LCHS Annex, 408 N. Jefferson St., and chronicle the birth of the American oil industry, beginning in 1859, by Colonel Edwin Drake.

📅 Today in History: In 1859, “Colonel” Edwin L. Drake became the first person to strike oil in the U.S., using new techniques to drive an iron pipe 69 and one-half feet deep. The well, in northwest ...