Pine Grove Park was an excursion park on the South Mountain Railroad line. It was located in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, "in a grove of magnificent trees".[1] It was established by Colonel Jackson C. Fuller c. 1881.[2][3]: 14 It operated from c. 1881 to c. 1904.
Fuller also owned a farm in the area, and established the railroad's Round Top Park at the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1884.[4]
History
editThe Fuller Cornet Band often performed at the park.[5] Pine Grove Park hosted the American Institute of Mine Engineers on October 27, 1881,[6] and J.C. Fuller’s Fifth Annual Reunion on September 18, 1883.[7] By July 1884, the park included a green field for baseball and other games, water fountains, lunch tables & seats, a dancing pavilion, a bowling alley, children's swings, a carousel, and a 200 yd (180 m) rifle range.[8]
A Baldwin steam car carried visitors between the park and the nearby iron works.[9] The "first hard day's practice" of the 1903 Dickinson College football team took place at the park.[10] Both Pine Grove Park and Pine Grove Furnace State Park were listed in 1904 as railway stations on the Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad,[11][12] but the park ceased operations c. 1904, and was "in ruins" when the Reading Company laid new tracks near the former park in 1912.[13]
A January 1913 plan to restore the private park was superseded by the commonwealth's purchase of the surrounding area. The former site of Pine Grove Park is now part of Pine Grove Furnace State Park.[13]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Ege, Rev. Thompson P.-D. D. (1911). History and Genealogy Of The Ege Family In The United States, 1738-1911 (Archive.org text). The Star Printing Company. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ^ "Pine Grove Furnace Collection". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC.state.pa.us). Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ^ Way, John H (1986). "Your Guide to the Geology of the Kings Gap Area …" (PDF) (Environmental Geology Report 8). Pennsylvania Geological Survey. Archived from the original (booklet) on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
At full capacity, an average furnace used 800 bushels of charcoal every 24 hours … 240 or more acres of woodland
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- p. 12: Figure 6-2 (Map). Invilliers, Edward V. d'[1]. 1886.
- ^ "Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Excursions" (Google News Archives). Gettysburg Compiler. 29 July 1884. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ http://techterms.net/ironwork/TAIME/pdf/TAIME_vol_10.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Albert Cook Myers Collection Inventory" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
- ^ "First Gettysburg Excursion to Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archives). Gettysburg Compiler. 13 May 1884. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ^ Keefer, Horace Andrew (October 1934) [written after January 29, 1927]. Recollections, Historical and Otherwise, Relating To Old Pine Grove Furnace (Report). Potomac Appalachian Trail Club Bulletin. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ^ "PREPARING FOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL - Formal Opening of the Season Will Be This Week with the Carlisle Indians Playing Lebanon - Yale Loses Many Good Men - Long schedule of Games Arranged by Rival Teams" (PDF). New York Times. 13 September 1903. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ "Gettysburg & Harrisburg R. R. [schedule]". Gettysburg Compiler. 25 May 1885. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ^ The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition (Google Books). 1904. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
- ^ a b "Would Restore Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Times. 11 January 1913. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
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