Location:
Titusville, Pennsylvania
Date:
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Date:
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Description:
The Titusville area was first settled in 1796 by Jonathan Titus with lumber being the principal industry for many of its formative years. However, in the late 1850s, this all changed. Oil was known to exist in the area here, but there was no practical way to extract it. Near the end of the decade the Seneca Oil Company sent Col. Edwin L. Drake, to start drilling on a piece of leased land just south of Titusville near what is now Oil Creek State Park. Drake hired a salt well driller, William A. Smith, in the summer of 1859. After many failures and problems with equipment and drilling, on August 27 at the site of an oil spring just south of Titusville, they finally drilled a well that could be commercially successful.
Registration Fees:
$25 for the half marathon, if registered by April 1, 2011
$35 between April 2 - June 1
$45 between June 2 - August 1
$35 between April 2 - June 1
$45 between June 2 - August 1
Source/Website:
www.drakewellmarathon.com
www.drakewellmarathon.com
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