TITUSVILLE — The Titusville post office will be named in honor of oil industry pioneer Edwin Drake. Bipartisan legislation to name the building at 135 W. Spring St. as the Edwin L. Drake Post Office ...

as the Edwin L ... outlined Drake's accomplishments in a speech on the House floor in June. Titusville's Drake Well Museum and Park celebrates the history of Pennsylvania's oil region.

The U.S. Post Office in Titusville will now bear the name of the father of the American oil industry. Legislation renaming the facility at 135 W. Spring St. to the Edwin L. Drake Post Office Building ...

In 1859, Edwin Drake became the first person to use an iron pipe ... using all the whiskey barrels in Titusville. Drake’s well started the Pennsylvania oil rush in 1859 which launched an ...