In 1867, Rogers joined Pratt in forming Charles Pratt and Company, which was purchased by Standard Oil in 1874. Shortly afterward, Rogers met oil pioneer Charles Pratt, who purchased the entire output of the tiny Wamsutta Oil Refinery. The principal product of the oil was kerosene. Other oil boom towns located in Venango County included Franklin, Oil City, and the now defunct Pithole City. Within weeks, oil derricks were erected all over the area.

(Although Titusville is in Crawford County, the first oil well was drilled outside of town, less than a mile inside of the Venango County boundary) This single well soon exceeded the entire cumulative oil output of Europe since the 1650s. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling rig on August 28, 1859, near Titusville. George Bissell, a Yale University chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Venango County was home to an oil boom in the years following discovery of natural oil (petroleum) in the mid-1850s. The settlement at its mouth was likewise called Venango, and is the site of present-day South Side of Oil City. This was corrupted in English as the Venango River. The name 'Venango' is derived from the Native American name of the region, Onenge, meaning Otter. Venango County was created on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny and Lycoming Counties.

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