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DRAKE WELL

Welcome to Titusville
Birthplace of the Oil Industry

Drake Well Park
On this site "Col." Edwin Drake struck oil Aug. 27, 1859; the birth of the petroleum industry

  
Searchable Google Map of Drake Well Park in Titusville

Location of the first well drilled for oil

This native boulder marks the plot
where through the foresight, energy
and persistence of Edwin L. Drake the
first well was drilled for oil.
On August 27, 1859 oil was found at a
depth of sixty-nine feet. This great
discovery inaugurated the petroleum
industry.

Drake Well Museum

Drake drills for oil

Uncle Billy Smith
a blacksmith and salt well driller from Tarentum, near Pittsburgh, was hired to drill the world's first oil well by Col. Drake

Oil is formed by a process as yet unknown. The nature of most oils points to an organic origin, in which organic debris in ancient marine sediments is slowly reduced to hydrocarbons by a low-temperature process which is both chemical and physical.

Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company

Oil Becomes a Business

ROTARY DRILLING
The idea of drilling wells with a rotary drill (instead of the chisel-bit of cable tool drillings) is an old idea. Leonardo da Vinci designed a rotary drilling rig around 1500, and by 1865 several types of rotary drilling methods had been successfully tried.

Oil derricks

Nitro-Glycerine Wagon

Cannon used to fight fires in
oil storage tanks

Old fire-fighting wagon

Machinery inside the Drake Well

Drake Well Park in Titusville, PA

Various types of oil well equipment

GEORGE BISSELL
(1821-1884)
An attorney and oil industry pioneer.

   
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