Tag: drake

• Know Your History: The Largest Oil Producing Region in America

  No, I’m not talking about Texas. Pennsylvania. What, you say? Did you ever wonder why there is “Quaker State Oil”? How about Pennzoil? Or Penn Oil? Or Oil City, Pennsylvania? Or Petronia, PA. Or even the humble village where I grew up – Great Belt, PA? You may not realize it, but western Pennsylvania was,…

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  May 10, 2014

  History & Culture

  beginning of the oil industry, drake, drake’s well, gasoline engines, oil industry, petroleum