Bipartisan legislation to name the building at 135 W. Spring St. as the Edwin L. Drake Post Office Building was sponsored by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of Butler County, R-16th Dist., and signed into ...

His “drive pipe” quickly produced between 20 to 40 barrels daily, using all the whiskey barrels in Titusville. Drake’s well started the Pennsylvania oil rush in 1859 which launched an ...

When the bank was constructed in Titusville in 1918, its founder commissioned beautiful murals to be painted on the ceiling. It's a tribute to the oil industry.

In 1859, Edwin Drake became the first person to use an iron pipe to drill for oil. His “drive pipe” quickly produced between 20 to 40 barrels daily, using all the whiskey barrels in Titusville.