Drake’s Well

Drake’s Well is a historic building in Venango County, Pennsylvania. Drake’s Well is situated nearby to Drake Well Museum, as well as near the athletics track Drake Well BMX.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Drake Well Museum and University of Pittsburgh at Titusville.

Drake Well Museum

Museum

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The Drake Well Museum and Park is a museum in Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania that chronicles the birth of the American oil industry in 1859 by Colonel Edwin Drake.

University of Pittsburgh at Titusville

University

The University of Pittsburgh at Titusville is a state-related college in Titusville, Pennsylvania. It is a regional campus of the University of Pittsburgh with its administrative leadership shared with the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. University of Pittsburgh at Titusville is situated 1¼ miles north of Drake’s Well.

Titusville Area High School

School

Photo: Tenneys, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Titusville Area High School is a public high school in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The school serves about 660 students in grades 9-12. The main feeder school is Titusville Middle School. Titusville Area High School is situated 1½ miles northwest of Drake’s Well.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Titusville and Toonerville.

Titusville

Photo: VitaleBaby, Public domain.

Titusville is a city in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, with a population of about 5,400 in 2017. Titusville is where the modern oil industry began.

Toonerville

Hamlet

Toonerville is an unincorporated community in Venango County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The community was named after Toonerville Folks, a comic strip. Toonerville is situated 3½ miles southwest of Drake’s Well.

Drake’s Well

Type: Historic building
Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Venango County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.61078° or 41° 36′ 39″ north

Longitude

-79.65772° or 79° 39′ 28″ west

Open location code

87H2J86R+8W

OpenStreetMap ID

way 707473018

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=building

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Drake Well BMX and The Ed Myer Complex.

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