While some claims of prior art do exist (e.g., Bóbrka, Poland in 1854, Wietze, Germany in 1857, Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada in 1858), the Drake Well at Titusville was the first well to be widely copied.
Oil Springs Reservation, an Indian reservation of the Seneca tribe in New York state
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At the time of missionary Joseph de La Roche Daillon's arrival in the area in 1627, the Oil Springs were in the hands of the now lost Wenro tribe.