Drake Memorial - Titusville, PA
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N 41° 37.996 W 079° 41.420
17T E 609085 N 4609887
A cemetery monument featuring "The Driller" kneeling to drive a stake into a rock commemorates the Colonel Edwin Drake who drilled the first oil well.
Waymark Code: WMADKP
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2011
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From the American Guide, we learn:
"In the Woodlawn Cemetery is the Drake Memorial, erected in 1901 with $100,000 donated by Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil Company. The cut stone monument to the "oil discoverer" has two Ionic columns framing a niche in which is a bronze statue of
The Driller. On each side is a curving bench with a high back. Drake's body, brought here from Bethlehem in 1902, lies with that of his wife in a vault beneath a simple slab in front of the memorial."
---- Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State, 1940
Woodlawn Cemetery is located on West Spring Street. The town has grown to encompass the cemetery. For reference, the original $100,000 donation in 1901 is now worth $2,190,000 using GDP deflation.