The Weil family opened the Hotel deWeil—seen here in a photograph from the Drake Museum collection—on a main street in Titusville, Pa. in the years after an oil discovery in 1859 brought thousands of people to the area.

Date c.1870
Identifier MSP490.B001.F44.I01 Hotel de Weil (Titusville), Courtesy Drake Well Museum
Collection Weil Family Photographs
Source Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the Heinz History Center