Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Emlenton, PA

Emlenton is a borough on the Allegheny River that straddles the Venango–Clarion county line, with the larger portion in Venango County.

Emlenton was settled in 1820 and is named for Hannah Emlen Fox, the wife of Joseph Mickle Fox, one of its founders and original landowners.

A village stood at Emlenton by 1835, and its furnaces, sawmills, tannery, distillery and brewery soon made it the distributing center for a 25-mile radius, with four hotels established by 1838.

Emlenton was incorporated as a borough in 1859, and its population had already reached 1,660 by 1860.

Oil excitement reached Emlenton in 1867, when wells struck along Ritchey Run and derricks sprang up across the surrounding hills and valleys, bringing in about 100 barrels a day.

Emlenton had the first natural gas company, and for many years so many gas companies had an Emlenton man as president or operating head that the borough became known as the "daddy of the gas business."

The Emlenton Refining Company, established in 1895, merged in 1931 with the Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation and became an important unit of that organization.

The 2020 census counted 614 people in Emlenton, down from 784 in 2000.

The Emlenton Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, preserving the borough's oil-era streetscape.

Since 1979 Emlenton has been home to Kobzarska Sich, an annual intensive two-week Ukrainian bandura music camp held along the banks of the Allegheny River.