Emlenton
Franklin
Oil City
Tionesta
Titusville
Pleasantville
Meadville
Tidioute
Endeavor
Warren
Sheffield
Bradford
Smethport
Ridgway

Styles

Adam
Greek Revival
Classical Revival
Gothic Revival
Italianate
Second Empire
Stick
Queen Anne
Shingle
Colonial Revival
Neoclassical
Tudor
English Cottage

BRADFORD

Eight miles south of the New York border, Colonel Levitt Little, an employee of the United States Land Company, established in 1837 a homestead on Tuna Creek.  In time, other settlers arrived, and the place was named Littleton.  In 1858, the tiny out-of-the-way village was renamed Bradford.  By 1875, the community had five or six hundred inhabitants.  Frederick Crocker of Titusville changed all this in the summer of 1875.  Crocker, refer to the Styles Section under Italianate, was drilling wildcat wells in the Bradford area that summer when he brought in a flowing well with a capacity of over a hundred barrels a day. This was enough to draw oil men from everywhere.  By 1880, over 7000 wells were producing oil in the Bradford Field with production running at the extraordinary rate of 65,000 barrels a day.  In 1881, the field was producing 100,000 barrels a day, close to 77% of the world’s oil supply.  At that time, some 11,000 people lived in and around Bradford
 
 

ACCOMMODATIONS: Howard Johnson Hotel at Bradford, 100 Davis Street, (814)362-4501.

DINING: Numerous regional and national chain restaurants.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: East from Warren on Route 6 and Route 59 to Route 770 and Route 219 North.  From New York, Route 17, come south on Route 219.