“Colonel” Edwin L. Drake, of Seneca Oil Company, acquires petroleum by drilling near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
NOTE: Previously petroleum was obtained by collecting that which had oozed to the surface, from underground.
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Subsequent Events:
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 156.
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