Small Towns in Great Lakes Region 2

Main streets, river towns, canal towns and county seats worth a day trip.

  • Franklin

    Town · Franklin, Venango County

    Where French Creek meets the Allegheny River, a Victorian county seat with oil-boom mansions, a downtown laid out around two parks, and paved river trails leading out of town.

  • Titusville

    Town · Titusville, Crawford County

    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.