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Drake & Wilson at World's First Oil Well, Titusville, PA

Drake & Wilson at World's First Oil Well, Titusville, PA Pennsylvania
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Stock #:1182580
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
City: Titusville
State: Pennsylvania (PA)
County: Crawford
Publisher: Penna. Historical & Museum Commission
Size: 4" x 6" (10.25 x 15.25 cm)
Publisher's Series #: DW 676
Additional Details:
In 1866, top hatted E. L. Drake and Peter Wilson posed at the abandoned world's first commercially successful well drilled for oil. The well, owned by the Seneca Oil Company of Connecticut, struck August 27, 1859.
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