Calling History Buffs: Great Lakes Oil Region Must be Visited on Your PA Family Vacation

Do you enjoy learning about America’s past, present and future?

Then on your next PA family vacation, you must visit Pennsylvania’s Great Lakes Oil Region. It’s rich with history.

Leave your worries behind as you indulge in the natural beauty, historic structures, Indian heritage, festivals and recreational opportunities of the Oil Heritage Region.

The family will love visiting the Drake Well Museum, the site where the world’s first commercial oil well was drilled!

Do you want to see the oldest well in the entire world that’s still producing oil at its original depth? McClintock Well #1 awaits you.

Listen to old oil boom tales as you take part in a murder mystery dinner on the Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad!

If you love music, then you must shimmy on over to the DeBence Antique Music World. This one-of-a-kind collection of over 100 old-fashioned automated musical instruments is known as the “see and hear” museum. You won’t be able to keep your toes from tapping, your hands from clapping and your knees from swaying!

Fishing is a dream at Justus Lake at Two Mile Run Park. You’ll experience great fishing for both cold water and warm water species! Below the surface swim more species of fish than in any other stream in the state! You can even fly fish!

There’s so much to uncover in the Oil Region. You’ll experience history in progress in a way that you’ve never imagined.

Adventures await you in the Pennsylvania Great Lakes region! Book your next Pennsylvania weekend getaway today!

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