
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.

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.