Industrial Power, 1865-1900
In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. oil (kerosene) industry was born in western Pennsylvania, which supplied the vast majority of U.S. kerosene for years thereafter. As oil was developed, the oil boom towns, such as Titusville, rose and fell. See the Pennsylvanian oil rush.
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