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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21B8_brown-street-bridge_Titusville-PA.html
Brown Street Bridge ♦ A Steel and Wrought Iron Baltimore Through Truss Design, 175-foot span locally known as the Brown Street Bridge, was constructed on this site crossing Oil Creek between 1898-1899. Prior to replacement in 1991 the bridge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21B5_st-titus-church_Titusville-PA.html
Many Roman Catholics came into the area during the oil boom which began in 1859. The Reverend Father DeLarouque, who had been presiding over mass in a cooper shop, decided a church was needed. Ground was broken on this property in 1862 and the bui…
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The first machine shop and foundry built to serve the oil industry was located "a year and a mile from Drake Well." In 1889, new owners organized it as the Titusville Iron Company, Limited, under executive officers John Fertig and James Curtis McK…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21B0_western-ny-and-pa-railway-freight-station-1892_Titusville-PA.html
In 1860, Thomas Struthers and his partners formed the Oil Creek Railroad to haul freight, coal, and oil between Corry and Petroleum Centre. The original station was destroyed in Titusville's great flood and fire of 1892, but rebuilt later that yea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IKC_titusville-trust-company-1919_Titusville-PA.html
"There are few bank buildings in America which equal this in permanence and quality of construction..." remarked architect Arthur Zimm. The Titusville Herald reported that "...few were prepared for the beauties revealed when its doors were thrown …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM185N_byron-d-benson_Titusville-PA.html
A founder and first president of Tidewater Pipe Co., est. 1878. He transformed the shipment of oil with a larger 6-inch pipe that covered greater distances than ever before. This pipeline was first to carry Pa. crude directly to coastal refineries…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM185M_early-refinery_Titusville-PA.html
The first refinery in the Oil Creek Region for crude petroleum was built nearby in 1860. The first run of oil was made in 1861. Oil was first refined at Pittsburgh, about 1854, by Samuel Kier.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM185L_titusvillia-drakei-caster_Titusville-PA.html
In ancient seabottom rocks exposed in this stream, the Holotype Specimen of a rare fossil sponge was found by Paleontologist Kenneth E. Caster. In 1939 in recognition of the support which brought the sciences of geology and paleontology to such em…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY30_john-a-mather_Titusville-PA.html
Photographer of oil industry from 1860, lived in this house. His thousands of views form an extraordinary record of an industry that began here. Born, Bury, England, in 1829; died Titusville, 1915.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY2Z_ida-m-tarbell_Titusville-PA.html
Noted oil historian, biographer of Lincoln, journalist, lived in this house about six years. She was graduated from the Titusville High School in 1875.