Drake Well Museum and Park
Jon Sherman, 2002. Recounts the momentous story of the first oil drilling, looks at the Titusville region during the short-lived oil boom, and provides a complete tour of Drake Well Museum and Park, with stops at McClintock Well #1 and the oil boomtown Pithole City. (Stackpole Books and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) paperback
Recounts the momentous story of the first oil drilling, looks at the Titusville region during the short-lived oil boom, and provides a complete tour of Drake Well Museum and Park, with stops at McClintock Well #1 and the oil boomtown Pithole City.
A guide to the museum that preserves Pennsylvania's petroleum heritage on the site where Edwin L. Drake successfully drilled oil in 1859, launching the modern oil industry.