New Page 1 http://www.petroliavalley.org/sugarcreek/oil.htm Colonel Drake drilled the first oil well near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859. Five years after Drake’s first strike, Brady’s Bend Iron drilled the first well on this ... Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:30:00 GMT
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NEWTON GAS WELL (DOTYVILLE OIL FIELD)…. SPEECHLEY GAS WELL (COAL ... http://www.oil150.com/essays/2008/09/newton-gas-well-dotyville-oil-field-speechley-gas-well-coal-hill The first well supplied Franklin, Oil City and Titusville with fuel several months. It blew off four months with a pressure estimated at four thousand pounds per square inch.” Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:23:00 GMT
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Oil History Timeline | Oil150.com http://www.oil150.com/about-oil/timeline/ Drake's well, drilled 69 ½ feet, struck oil near Titusville PA (first well deliberately drilled for oil) and launched the modern petroleum industry Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:17:00 GMT
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History of the Oil Region http://www.oilheritage.com/history/history.htm Drake's well, drilled 69 ½ feet, struck oil near Titusville PA (first well deliberately drilled for oil) and launched the modern petroleum industry Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:24:00 GMT
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Titusville, PA - Drake Well Museum http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/1143 Titusville, Pennsylvania - Drake Well Museum Titusville has the Drake Well museum, where oil was discovered for the first time in the US by a white man, Francis [correction: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:32:00 GMT
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GoErie.com: Well of hope: Titusville http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709300417 Smith, after many failed attempts, struck oil along Oil Creek just south of Titusville. It was the first successful oil well in the world. "The rush for property," McLaurin ... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:22:00 GMT
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oil well -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/426254/oil-well Milt and Joan Mann from CameraMann] First-oil-well-in-the-United-States-built-in-1859 First oil well in the United States, built in 1859 by Edwin L. Drake, Titusville, Pa.[Credits ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:38:00 GMT
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Among the First Players http://www.petroleumhistory.org/OilHistory/pages/drake/players.html This was the first working oil lease. Angier later became the first mayor of Titusville, 1866. ... Drake's was the discovery well of that field, the first in the early oil belt. Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:50:00 GMT
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Pa. Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources - Heritage Parks http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/brc/heritageparks/oil.aspx ... industry at the Drake Well Museum, with its full-size replica of Edwin Drake's first successful oil well, drilled in 1859. Re-live the oil days on board the Oil Creek & Titusville ... Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:21:00 GMT
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Oil 150, Victorian Region, Alleghemy Geotrail, Oil Heritage, Drake ... http://www.oilregion.org/Victorian-Region/Locations/Titusville Titusville. Well known as the birthplace of the oil industry, Titusville had a prosperous lumber ... owner of the property where Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:28:00 GMT
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Drake Well, birth of the oil and gas industry http://www.essortment.com/all/oilgasindustry_ryjr.htm ... people are somehow misinformed that the first oil and gas well was drilled in Texas. It was not instead, it was drilled in a small northwestern Pennsylvania town called Titusville Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:38:00 GMT
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Titusville, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titusville%2C_Pennsylvania The first oil millionaire was Jonathan Watson, a resident of Titusville. He owned the land where Drake's well was drilled. He had been a partner in a lumber business prior to the ... Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:40:00 GMT
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Oil: Early Appearance in the County http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/Oil/FirstOilinCountyMSP91.html The first well that was drilled for oil, in Titusville, Pa., proved that man could penetrate the earth and bring up to the surface a precious commodity - oil. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:32:00 GMT
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Oil Industry http://www.keyknox.com/grassroots/yesterday/industry/oil.htm The first oil well fire started on October 6, 1859 when a driller name Smith knocked ... but what mostly helped the industry was Edwin Drake (who had a oil well in Titusville). Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:05:00 GMT
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Drake Well Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Oil_Well The first oil millionaire, a resident of Titusville, was Jonathan Watson who owned the land where Drake's well was drilled. The same land is now part of Oil Creek State Park and the ... Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:39:00 GMT
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Welcome To The Drake Well Website http://www.drakewell.org/ Site where Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry. Includes information on the visitors center, news, gift shop and ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:58:00 GMT
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Titusville definition of Titusville in the Free Online Encyclopedia. http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Titusville In between, the reader will learn not only about the drilling of the first oil well in Titusville and the strategies of the generals at Gettysburg, but also about how Punxsutawney ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:38:00 GMT
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Titusville (Pennsylvania, United States) -- Britannica Online ... http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/597396/Titusville Milt and Joan Mann from CameraMann] First-oil-well-in-the-United-States-built-in-1859 First oil well in the United States, built in 1859 by Edwin L. Drake, Titusville, Pa.[Credits ... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:16:00 GMT
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Titusville & the Pennsylvania Oil Heritage Region http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/day_trips/a/titusville_oil.htm titusville pennsylvania oil heritage region birth oil industry colonel edwin drake first oil well us united states world western pennsylvania northwestern pennsylvania petroleum ... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:43:00 GMT
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The Drake Well - the first oil well...in Pennsylvania? http://www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/history/pennsylvania/pennsylvania.html For this was one of the first successful oil wells that was ... Why Titusville? Why did Drake choose this spot to drill for oil? Well, the number one beacon was the ... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:12:00 GMT
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