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In the late 1850s Seneca Oil Company (formerly the Pennsylvania Rock 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.
Parke Dickey in his 1959 great paper The First Oil Well doesn't dispute other claims to be the first well (that isn't the point). He felt that no one is likely to question the fact that it was the Drake Well at Titusville which started the industry on its spectacular career.. The other centers boomed as well.