Titusville, Pennsylvania
| Titusville | |||
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| Nickname : Birthplace of the Oil Industry | |||
 Titusville, Pennsylvania (2006) |
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| Location in Pennsylvania | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1796 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Pennsylvania | ||
| County : | Crawford County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 38 ′ N , 79 ° 40 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 5,601 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 746.8 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 7.5 km 2 (approx. 3 mi 2 ) of which 7.5 km 2 (approx. 3 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 364 m | ||
| Postal code : | 16354 | ||
| Area code : | +1 814 | ||
| FIPS : | 42-76904 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1189602 | ||
| Website : | www.titusvillecityhall.com | ||
Titusville is a small town on Oil Creek in Crawford County in northwestern Pennsylvania , USA . The town, founded in 1796 , had 5,601 inhabitants in the 2010 census.
On August 27, 1859 , the first commercial oil well in history was sunk by Edwin L. Drake in Titusville, which was initially only a transshipment point for the timber industry , after an even earlier well in Baku on the Caspian Sea . Drake established the city's reputation as the birthplace of the petroleum age.
The Drake Well Museum in a floodplain on the outskirts of the city documents the first successful drilling for oil by Colonel Edwin Drake . It consists of a small tourist center, a museum with historical objects and photographs, a forge and the actual oil well. There are regular demonstrations. A few barrels of oil are extracted from the well each year and, packaged in bottles, are mainly sold to tourists. The wooden pump house built above the spring is a replica from 1945; the original fell victim to the flames just a few months after it was put into operation.
The Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad is a tourist attraction that connects Titusville with Oil City . A campus of the University of Pittsburgh is located in Titusville.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1896 . 1896. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ↑ Dan Nephin: Drake's Pa. oil well idea changed world in 1859 . ( August 22, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive ) Associated Press , August 15, 2009.
- ^ City of Oil City History . Retrieved June 12, 2015.