PA Getaway

History museum · Cherrytree Township, Venango County

Drake Well Museum and Park

Drake Well Museum and Park: At the Drake Well Museum in August 2006 in Titusville , Pennsylvania
Photo: Zamoose, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

The spot where Edwin Drake struck oil in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry, with a replica engine house and derrick, an oil-history museum and trails along Oil Creek.

What you will find

  • Museum or exhibits
  • Historic features
  • Hiking trails

Make a day of it

Nearby

  • Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad

    Heritage railroad · 1 miles away

    Excursion trains roll down the valley where the oil business began, through Oil Creek State Park between Titusville and Rynd Farm.

  • Titusville

    Town · 1 miles away

    Where the oil industry began in 1859, with the Drake Well Museum on the site of the first commercial well, Victorian houses built on oil money and a bike trail through Oil Creek's valley.

  • Oil Creek State Park

    State park · 7 miles away

    The valley where the oil industry was born, with a paved bike trail past the sites of vanished boomtowns, a heritage railroad, a 36-mile hiking loop and hollows full of small waterfalls.

  • Pithole City

    Ghost town · 7 miles away

    Mown paths on a quiet hillside trace the streets of an 1865 oil boomtown that swelled to thousands of people and emptied within a few years.

  • Cornplanter State Forest

    State forest · 11 miles away

    A compact forest of scattered tracts named for the Seneca leader Cornplanter, with old-growth pines and hemlocks along Anders Run and short, easy trails for hiking and cross-country skiing.