Oil Heritage Park
In
northwest Pennsylvania, check out the Oil Heritage Park. Take a guess where
the first oil well was drilled-no, not Texas-it was right here in a picturesque
valley in Venango County, Pa.! The discovery shaped the nation and changed the
world. Today, bass anglers and fly fishermen wet their lines in the scenic Allegheny
River and Oil Creek, where oil coated waterways and derricks dotted the hillsides
more than a century ago. Visit this heritage
park...
Visit PA Regions
Heritage Parks
Pennsylvania's Heritage Parks are about
the eras of steel and iron making, coal mining, the oil boom, canal and
road building, blazing the early roads and highways and living off the
land. They're about the influx of immigrants, the challenges and triumphs
of a determined people and the birth of liberty and independence. They
are why Pennsylvania became the Hearth of America. We invite you to learn
more and visit our Heritage Parks.
