Harpers Ferry: Oil Wells and Family Trees
Jan 11th, 2005 | By Byron King | Category: Oil
Byron King discusses Colonel Edwin Drake and the early days of US oil drilling in Titusville, PA -- and how, when the news of the first successful well drilled for broke in October 1859, it was overshadowed by abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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