In 1859 at Titusville.
Titusville.
The first oil well was drilled by Edwin Drake in Titusville, Pennsylvania. At a depth of only 69 feet (21 meters), Drake struck oil, and his well began to produce about thirty barrels of oil a day. In the years that followed, hundreds of wells were drilled in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Indiana.
While it is unknown who actually discovered oil in Pennsylvania, Colonel Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well there. The year was 1859 and the oil boom began.
In 1859, Edwin Drake was the first man to drill a commercial oil well in the US in the middle of quiet farm country in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859.
A town named Evangeline in the parish of Acadia in 1901
The first successful oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania!
I dont know the city, but they first drilled oil in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
In Crawford County.
Pennsylvania
Titusville.
Probably because the first oil well was drilled there. Firstmate
Edwin L. Drake
No, the Pennsylvania oil fields came much earlier.
The first oil well was drilled by Edwin Drake in Titusville, Pennsylvania. At a depth of only 69 feet (21 meters), Drake struck oil, and his well began to produce about thirty barrels of oil a day. In the years that followed, hundreds of wells were drilled in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Indiana.
It was drilled in Pennsylvania by a man named Edwin Drake and he drilled the well in 1859 near titusville. By: Raysean Potts