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Oil Region National Heritage Area — Rails and Trails
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Oil Region National Heritage Area

Pennsylvania · PA

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Oil Region National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The national heritage area commemorates and promotes the region surrounding Edwin Drake's oil well of 1859 near Titusville, which gave rise to the modern oil industry.

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