Titusville
a city in Crawford co., Pa.; on Oil creek and the New York TITUSVILLE Central and Pennsylvania railroads; 18 miles N. of Oil City. Here are a public library, high school, waterworks, electric lights, churches, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The first petroleum well in the United States was opened in the suburbs of the city in 1859, and since then the principal industry has been the production of oil. The city also has manufactories of soap, silk goods, radiators, chairs and furniture, engines, boilers, steel and iron forgings, oil-well drilling tools, etc. Pop. (1910), 8,533; (1920), 8,432.