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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY2Y_titusville-oil-exchange_Titusville-PA.html
The industry's first permanent oil exchange was organized in 1871 by producers, refiners, dealers, brokers. Starting in the American Hotel on this spot, it moved to other sites; returned here in a new three-story brick building, 1881. Dissolved 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY2X_roberts-torpedo_Titusville-PA.html
First successful device for increasing the flow of oil by setting off an explosion deep in a well. It was publicly demonstrated in 1865. The nitroglycerin was made .4 mile south of here, along Hammond Run.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY2W_oil-creek_Titusville-PA.html
Along this stream the first white explorers found Indians skimming surface oil. From 1859 to 1865, the center of oil production and its refining was along the banks of Oil Creek.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY2V_john-william-heisman_Titusville-PA.html
Renowned college football coach and name-sake for the sport's highest amateur honor, the Heisman Memorial Trophy. His innovations included legalizing the forward pass, the center snap, the scoreboard, and game quarters. Heisman promoted player saf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY2U_densmore-tank-cars_Titusville-PA.html
The first functional railway oil tank car was invented and constructed in 1865 by James and Amos Densmore at nearby Miller Farm along Oil Creek. It consisted of two wooden tanks placed on a flat railway car; each tank held 40-45 barrels of crude o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY2G_drake-well-park_Titusville-PA.html
On this site "Col." Edwin Drake struck oil Aug. 27, 1859; the birth of the petroleum industry.Administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY2F_edwin-l-drake_Titusville-PA.html
The man who sank the first oil well is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, and is commemorated by Niehaus's bronze figure of "The Driller." Drake Well is now a State park, a mile and a half south of Titusville.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQC_drake-well_Titusville-PA.html
This native boulder marks the plotwhere through the foresight, energyand persistence ofEdwin L. DrakeThe first well was drilled for oil.On August 27, 1859 oil was foundat a depth of sixty-nine feet.This great discovery inaugurated the petroleum in…