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Drake Well Museum

@DrakeWellMuseum

Birthplace of the Modern Petroleum Industry - August 27, 1859

 Titusville, PA
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Joined March 2015
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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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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 phmc.info/2nadjys
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#PHMC #WeekofGiving nitter.cf/DrakeWellMuseum/status…
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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 bbfgives.org 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.
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! bit.ly/2ls2sSi #DayofFacts
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Did ya know Johnny Cash sang about oil? Check it out! youtube.com/embed/HxxtrK___n…
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Yesterday was Museum Selfie Day #MuseumSelfie @DrakeWellMuseum
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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 nitter.cf/DrakeWellMuseum/status…
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Replying to @AskaCurator
The 80' high Standard Rig is the hardest artifact to maintain.
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#AskACurator John Scheide(1875-1942)- A bibliophile, Scheide was Drake Well's first curator.
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#AskACurator What's your burning questions about Pennsylvania's oily past?
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#AskACurator is today and Curator Sue Beates will be answering questions from 11 - 11:45.
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