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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.
Drake arrived in Titusville in December 1857, where letters of introduction addressed to Colonel Drake awaited him. Upon returning to New Haven, Drake's report was so favorable that several investors in the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company formed an operating subsidiary, the Seneca Oil Company, on 23 March 1858.