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Allegheny National Forest Oil Heritage, Warren, Warren County, PA

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Allegheny National Forest Oil Heritage, Warren, Warren County, PA

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Summary

Significance: Western Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the modern petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's oil well near Titusville in 1859. Subsequent development of the Appalachian oil region, stretching from New York to Tennessee, revealed hundreds of oil fields that produced a particularly fine quality of petroleum, often called Pennsylvania Grade crude oil, that is still largely unsurpassed in its lubricating qualities. For thirty-five years, western Pennsylvania led the nation in petroleum production, and techniques of drilling and pumping oil perfected in Appalachia found usage around the world.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N422
Survey number: HAER PA-436

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Drake, Edwin L
Hunt, T Sterry
White, I C
Carll, John
Lesley, J P
Kier, Samuel
Brewer, Francis
Bissel, George
Eveleth, Jonathan G
Siliman, Benjamin
Seneca Oil Company
Smith, William A
Hutchinson, L
Syckel, Samuel Van
Harvey, Henry
Allegheny Transportation Company
Standard Oil Company
Rockefeller, John
Rockefeller, William
Fairbanks, John Henry
Yates, Edward
Allen, George
Grimes, George
Platt, Wilbur O
Joseph Reid Gas Engine Company
South Penn Oil Company
West Virginia University Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, sponsor
Allegheny National Forest, sponsor
Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, sponsor
Elmer, Eric, field team project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Marston, Christopher H, project manager
Caplinger, Michael W, historian
Lapins, Arturs, delineator
Boxley, Paul, delineator
Daley, Scott, delineator
Hurst, Kara, delineator
McClung, Kevin, delineator
Nicely, John T, photographer
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Location

Youngsville (Warren County, Pa.)41.84395, -79.14504
Google Map of 41.8439486, -79.1450445
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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