Drake Well Museum and Park
National Historic Landmark · Titusville, Pennsylvania
The spot on Oil Creek where Edwin Drake struck oil at sixty-nine feet on 27 August 1859, using a driven iron pipe to hold back the gravel — the technique that made drilling for oil possible and started the petroleum industry. Within a year the valley was a forest of derricks, within fifteen it had produced boom towns that no longer exist, and the whole modern world followed from it. A replica of the engine house and derrick stands on the original well site, and the museum beside it is the definitive collection on the birth of the industry.
202 Museum Lane, Titusville, Pennsylvania, 16354, United States
Seasonal and reduced — generally open Wednesday to Sunday from spring through autumn with shorter hours and closures in winter, so verify before travelling. Engine house and field equipment demonstrations run on announced days only. Oil Creek State Park alongside is open daily and free. The Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad runs its own seasonal schedule.
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