Talk:Titusville, Pennsylvania

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Actually Canadian, the local Seneca Indians were using oil for a few hundred years prior to the discovery of America, they also were responsible for using elaborate catch basins to capture oil and use it as a viable idustrial product, which they sold. Also, water drillers in the area gave the Col. the idea to drill for oil, when they drilled their water wells the would frequently hit gas and oil pockets. Further more, if we ignore all those facts, Titusville is responsible for creating the world wide demand for oil, thus Titusville does not really claim to be responsible for the first place to drill for oil, instead they claim to be the birth place of the oil which is completely accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

First oil well
Just wanted to lay to rest the American chauvinism: Oil Springs, ON, had the first oil well in NAm (1857), not Titusville (1859...). Trekphiler 20:05, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I definitely agree that a lot of the stories are misleading about Col Edwin Drake. I am not sure that Oil Springs was even the first, though.  I found a book which claims West Virginia had oil wells in the 1820s.     I also found a timeline of the oil industry pre-Drake Well .  This could use some more research. I am glad you brought it up.  It seems the history is a bit murky, but quite interesting, and a lot different than we are led to believe here in Titusville.  --Klhuillier 04:33, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

The claim is not that Titusville is the first to drill for or strike oil, but rather that their well was the first to be commercially successful, producing enough for real industry. It is in this sense that Titusville is the "birthplace of the oil industry." Tragic romance (talk) 18:39, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Regardless of whether or not Titusville's oil well was the first commercially viable well, it was the oil drilling in Oil Springs Ontario that created the first North American oil rush and therefore, gave birth to the oil industry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.39.40.160 (talk) 13:48, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

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the oil creeck titusville railroad does not take you to oil city, but to a place a few miles away called rynd farm. oil city has a station but it is not used. maybe it used to.--Irish rover 10:48, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

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