Oil City (Pennsylvania)

Oil City is the largest city in Venango County in the Erie Region of Pennsylvania.

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Oil City grew large after oil was struck in Titusville. If was founded in 1860 on the site of a Seneca Indian village. It burgeoned as an oilcentre after the drilling of the world's first oil well (in 1859) at Titusville, about 16 miles up Oil Creek. Incorporated as a borough in 1862, it became a city in 1871 after merging with Venango City.

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