Henry R. Rouse

Henry R. Rouse is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Venango County, dedicated 1996.

Main St. (PA 8) between Mechanic St. & Cherry Run Rd. (PA 227)

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A former teacher and Warren County legislator who became a successful oil lease owner. One of 19 persons killed when the Little & Merrick oil well at Rouseville exploded and burned on April 17, 1861. As he lay dying, Rouse dictated a will that provided liberally for roads and the poor. Buchanan Farms had been renamed Rouseville that February; three-year-old Ida Tarbell (later famous as an oil industry critic) was a resident.

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1857 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Colton's New York (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Map of the Oil Region of Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · County map of the State of Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Howe's Map Of The Oil District Of Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Map of the Oil Region of Pennsylvania, 1865, covering the location of Henry R. Rouse, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map of the Oil Region of Pennsylvania, 1865, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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