Drake Well Museum

Birthplace of the Modern Petroleum Industry - August 27, 1859

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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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@PHMC #oil industry history https://t.co/Ux5CrvBpTm

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Standard Oil wasn't alone in using code to keep telegraphed information secret! Here's one from the J. L. McKinney Collection.

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Standard Oil wasn't alone in using code to keep telegraphed information secret! Here's one from the J. L. McKinney Collection.

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On Thursday, spend an evening @DrakeWellMuseum discovering how a nation at peace was drawn into #WWI . #PAatWar https://t.co/MXX16XguJt

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#PHMC #WeekofGiving https://t.co/LdJAx0A7Ez

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Friends of Drake Well Volunteers help with collections work!

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Friends of Drake Well Volunteers help with collections work!

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The Week of Giving has begun! Help us reach our $5,000 goal! Please retweet & share!

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March 20 through March 24. Visit https://t.co/Vi7xdetIkB for details.

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Friends of Drake Well is pleased to announce participation in the first Week of Giving event hosted by Brige Builders Community Foundation.

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Petroleum Program Series schedule set! Join us on Thursday nights in March & April 6th.

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Birth of petroleum industry in PA helped make use of whale oil obsolete. Crude oil was the alternative energy of 19th century. #DayofFacts

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After Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was published, Pres. Kennedy formed gov. group to investigate use/control of pesticides. #DayofFacts

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Immigrants got the job done in Pennsylvania’s early oil fields!
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Did ya know Johnny Cash sang about oil? Check it out!
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Yesterday was Museum Selfie Day #MuseumSelfie @DrakeWellMuseum

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@akimboart That being diversified in knowledge and skills is incredibly useful!

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@PHMC @CultureThemes "The Toolie's Warning" has 13 stanzas- not good for twitter.

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#AskACurator This angel of mercy selling crude oil appears on a Kier Advertisement 1848. #PetroleumHistory

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DYK this 1923 rig last drilled a gas well in Jefferson County, Pa 1953 in Clear Creek State Park. #Petroleum History https://t.co/ZHPvsYNFO3

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@AskACurator The 80' high Standard Rig is the hardest artifact to maintain.