Crawford

Meadville, PA

Oldest college in continuous existence under the same name west of the Allegheny Mountains.

Meadville, PA

Two blocks west from here is the home built in 1841 by Justice Henry Baldwin.

Meadville, PA

Here in Crawford County on Sept. 9, 1842, direct primary elections were born when county Democrats used this system to nominate county...

Titusville, PA

A founder and first president of Tidewater Pipe Co., est. 1878.

Cambridge Springs, PA

Between 1884 and 1915, this was a major health resort, founded upon the various mineral springs here.

Meadville, PA

Formed March 12, 1800 from Allegheny County.

Titusville, PA

The first refinery in the Oil Creek Region for crude petroleum was built nearby in 1860.

Titusville, PA

The man who sank the first oil well is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, and is commemorated by Niehaus's bronze figure of "The Driller.

Conneaut Lakeshore, PA

By this channel Conneaut Lake, raised 9 feet above normal level, fed water to the canal at its highest point, the junction of the...

Remains of the canal bed may be seen beside the railroad, below the bridge.

Hartstown, PA

Cut off from the rest of Pymatuning Swamp by a 3-mile bank, this became the 600-acre "Pymatuning Reservoir" of the canal, which lay at...

Cochranton, PA

The Riviere aux Boeufs of the French, renamed by George Washington in 1753.

The canal visible beyond the field was built 1827-1834.

The canal bed beside the road is part of a channel constructed 1827-1834 to take water from Meadville to Conneaut Lake for the Erie...

New Richmond, PA

John Brown of Ossawatomie and Harper's Ferry worked here as a tanner, 1825-35.

New Richmond, PA

On the side road, a short distance south, are the remains of the tannery and home built by the noted abolitionist of Harper's Ferry fame.

Titusville, PA

Renowned college football coach and name-sake for the sport's highest amateur honor, the Heisman Memorial Trophy.

Meadville, PA

Founded in 1788 by David Mead and other settlers from the Wyoming region.

Titusville, PA

Along this stream the first white explorers found Indians skimming surface oil.

Drilled here in 1815 by Samuel Magaw and William Clark to reach brine, a frontier source of salt.

Meadville, PA

Pa. State Senator, 1959-63, Lt. Governor, 1963-67, and Governor, 1967-71.

Meadville, PA

Born a slave in Maryland in 1801, he escaped as a boy and about 1824 came to Meadville.

Titusville, PA

First successful device for increasing the flow of oil by setting off an explosion deep in a well.

Woodcock Twp., PA

Here on August 5, 1936, the State's first rural electric pole was placed by the Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

Titusville, PA

The industry's first permanent oil exchange was organized in 1871 by producers, refiners, dealers, brokers.

Meadville, PA

A fine example of Greek Revival architecture.