🏚️ Pithole, Pennsylvania

United States · Americas · 41.52°N, 79.58°W

Pithole, or Pithole City, is a ghost town in Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States, about 6 miles (9.7 km) from Oil Creek State Park and the Drake Well Museum, the site of the first commercial oil well in the United States. Pithole's sudden growth and equally rapid decline, as well as its status as a "proving ground" of sorts for the burgeoning petroleum industry, made it one of the most famous of oil boomtowns.

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Country	United States
Continent / region	Americas
Coordinates (approx.)	41.52°N, 79.58°W · view on map

Pithole, Pennsylvania is located in United States, in Americas.

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