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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1033 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TITUSVILLE , a See also:

city of See also:Crawford See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on Oil See also:Creek, about 42 M. S. by E. of See also:Erie. Pop. (woo), 8244, of whom 1573 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 8533. Titusville is served by the See also:Dunkirk, See also:Allegheny Valley & See also:Pittsburg, and the Pennsylvania See also:railways. It has the See also:Benson Memorial library (1904), and in Woodlawn See also:Cemetery there is a See also:monument (erected by See also:Henry H. See also:Rogers in 1902) to See also:Colonel See also:Edwin L. See also:Drake (1819-188o), who here sank the first oil well (692 ft. deep) in See also:America in See also:August 1859 and who is buried here. Titusville was the See also:principal centre in Pennsylvania of the opposition to the See also:Standard Oil See also:Company ; but after 1875, when See also:John D. Archbold (b. 1848), a See also:leader of the See also:Independents, became a director of the Standard, few of the Titusville operators remained See also:independent. It was in the Titusville See also:district that the natural See also:gas See also:industry of Pennsylvania was first established about 1872.

There are various manufactures, and in 1905 the value of the factory products was $3,249,890. The first See also:

settlement was made here in 1796 by See also:Samuel Kerr and See also:Jonathan See also:Titus (in whose See also:honour the See also:place was named). Titusville was incorporated as a See also:borough in 1847 and was chartered as a city in 1866. On the 5th of See also:June 1892 Oil Creek See also:rose suddenly, overflowed its See also:banks and wrecked many oil tanks along the bottom-lands. A large See also:part of the See also:water was covered with oil, which soon caught See also:fire. About 6o persons were drowned or burned to See also:death, and about a See also:quarter of the city was destroyed.

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