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STATE HISTORICAL MARKERS
~ VENANGO COUNTY ~

HENRY R. ROUSE Marker erected December 11, 1996, this marker is located on PA 8 near the southern border of Rouseville.

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.


Henry R. Rouse was born at Westfield, Chautauqua County, NY, August 30, 1837. Mr. Rouse drilled the first well on the Buchanan Farm lease at the mouth of Cherry Run. Henry R. Rouse is buried next to his mother in the cemetery at Westfield, NY.


Donated by Penny Haylett Minnick
pictures Penny Haylett Minnick