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The Cool gas engine powering a Cyclone Drilling Rig at Drake Well Museum's Fall Gas Up yesterday! @PHMC @DrakeWellMuseum

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@fwnash1 Drake Well Museum has an image of a oil barrel barge with "J. S. Cosgrave 8" on it taken c. 1864, Allegheny River. #PHMC #@DrakeWellMuseum

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Clarion University Public History students are researching people who stayed at the Moore House, Titusville, 1865

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#oilfieldhistory @PHMC @DrakeWellMuseum

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Any guesses as to the use of this tool? It has no threading so it's not a drill bit.

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Any guesses as to the use of this tool? It has no threading so it's not a drill bit.

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Near the end of World War II, Minneapolis
industrialist {and civil engineer} John B. Hawley, Jr.’s Northern Ordnance
Company purchased oil lands in 18 states including 17,000 acres in Pennsylvania.
By 1946, he experimented with designs for electric pumping jacks.

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New discoveries about the past happen everyday at Drake Well Museum. Here's a letter from a collection describing life as a teamster in 1865. Adoniram and his wife built a house in Rouseville, PA 16'X14' and took in boarders!! @DrakeWellMuseum #PHMC #oilindustryhistory

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The Pioneer Steam & Gas Engine Society Fall Gas Up on 9/15 at Drake Well Museum was a great event! Check out our new exhibit!

https://t.co/9at1scWxMe

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Fall Gas Up this Saturday, Sept. 15 from 9-3. It's a fun event! This year featuring Jacobson engines made in Warren then Titusville until the 1930s. This one is in the Drake Well Museum Collection.

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The Titusville High School football team finished the move of drilling and production tools to the "new" Collections Storage today! Go Rockets!! #MusTool #oilhistory @DrakeWellMuseum @PHMC #TitusvilleSD

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"Full throttle!" Here's an original type of throttle - from the steam engine at Drake Well Museum @DrakeWellMuseum @PHMC #steampower #oilhistory

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Artifact of the day for Intern Megan! #oilhistory @PHMC #DrakeWellMuseum

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There's some great letterheads in the United Refining Company Collection. This one is found in the Nov.-Dec. 1904 Correspondence, file folder 7, box 32.

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Great weekend at the Coolspring Power Museum June Show. What a dynamic place! Oil Field Engines are the focus this year! #oil industry history #gas engines @PHMC

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Discovery Days for children 8-12 years old is every Thursday in July, co-sponsored by Oil Creek State Park. Each day will be filled with history and environmental hands-on fun!

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@DrakeWellMuseum Spring is here! The steam engine in the Drake Well Replica exhibit is running!

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The steam engine is running in the Drake Well exhibit. Spring is here! @DrakeWellMuseum @PHMC #petroleum history

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The 14 ton Yoyo Drilling Rig is up on a cement pad! Shambaugh Towing used creative rigging to make the beast move. They succeeded! #oilfield #oilindustryhistory @DrakeWellMuseum @PHMC

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@CentreHistory GREAT photo! And great tweets this week!

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It's Museum Week! This is also engine clean-up week getting ready for Engine Start Up Day this Saturday. #heritageMW @PHMC @DrakeWellMuseum