Site Of World's First Oil Well

Petrolia was once an oil boom town.

Before there was OPEC, lipstick and nylons, Iran and Alberta and even before Titusville and Colonel Drake, there was Petrolia and Oil Springs Ontario Canada. Here is where the world's oil industry started when the first commercial oil well was established in 1858.

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But even before that, the Tripp Brothers had discovered the oil seeps and in December 1854 incorporated the world's first oil company, with a pretentious name: The International Mining and Manufacturing Company.

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Today oil is still pumping in the Oil Springs and Petrolia fields driven by a central power plant with jerker rods reaching out to each well, just as it was in the 1850s. At Petrolia, such a field comprising of 60 acres has been set aside as a living museum, a major historic recreational exhibit. Here wells are being restored and the visitor will see crude oil as it was drawn from the ground from the beginning. The Petrolia Discovery gives its visitors a deeper appreciation of those Canadian pioneers who struggled to understand and control a natural resource. You will see the workshop and training ground and working wells and equipment of the men who over 140 years ago created one of the biggest businesses ever in the world--The Oil Business. Come to Petrolia Discovery and see it as it was.

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