Within 14 years, others bought and improved the land lying near him, along the banks of the now-named Oil Creek.

The family moved to Rouseville, a village on Oil Creek, and later to Titusville.

Oil Creek is a cold water fishery with bass and trout living in its waters.

Pennsylvania to a railroad station in Oil Creek, in the 1860s.

The well was dug on an island on the Oil Creek.

Another fire occurred on June 5, 1892, when Oil Creek flooded and a tank of benzine overturned.

Oil Creek is popular with canoeists and fishers.

Oil Creek - A stream by the east town line.

Petroleum found along Oil Creek was known to Native Americans for hundreds of years through natural seeps.

The museum has a station on the Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad.