Tag: drake’s well

• Know Your History: World’s First Commercial Oil Well

  In 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, Edwin Drake struck oil, captured it, and established the first commercial oil well in the world. Drake’s well. Here it is in August of 2020: Western Pennsylvania became the oil capital of the world for the next decade. The oil rush was on. Scores of wells dotted the aptly named…

  sassevn

  August 24, 2020

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  beginning of the oil industry, drake’s well, Titusville, Western Pennsylvania

• 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,…

  sassevn

  May 10, 2014

  History & Culture

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