Pine Grove Park was a South Mountain Railroad excursion park "in a grove of magnificent trees" [1] established by Colonel Jackson C. Fuller c. 1881[2] It was located east of the Pine Grove Iron Works near Toland in Cumberland County, south-central Pennsylvania It was in the South Mountain Range of the northern Blue Ridge Mountains System.[3]: 14 

Colonel Fuller also owned a farm in the area, and established the railroad's Round Top Park at the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1884.[4]

History

The park had the "Fuller Cornet Band" for entertainment,[5] and Fuller hosted the American Institute of Mine Engineers in 1881[6] and "J.C. Fuller’s Fifth Annual Reunion" in 1883.[7] By July 1884 the park included a green field for baseball and other games "at the Park station", water fountains, lunch tables & seats, large dancing pavilion, long bowling alley, children's swings, a carousel (flying horses, etc.), and a nearby 200 yd (180 m) rifle range.[8]

A Baldwin steam car carried visitors between the park and the iron works,[9] and the "first hard day's practice" of the 1903 Dickinson College football team was at the park.[10] Both "Pine Grove Park"[11] and "Pine Grove Furnace" were listed in 1904 as railway stations of the Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad,[12] but the park ended operations c. 1904 and was in "ruins" when the Reading Company laid new tracks in 1912.[13]

Pine Grove Furnace State Park

A January 1913 plan to restore the private park was superseded by the commonwealth's purchase of the surrounding area, which is now Pine Grove Furnace State Park.[13]

See also

  • South Mountain Range (Maryland−Pennsylvania)
  • Tourist attractions in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Pine Grove Furnace Collection". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC.state.pa.us). Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  3. ↑ 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 {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); External link in |issue= (help) per year.
    p. 12: Figure 6-2 (Map). Invilliers, Edward V. d'. 1886. {{cite map}}: External link in |publisher= (help) (also published: report on the iron ore mines and limestone quarries of the Cumberland-Lebanon Valley, Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine … in the "An. Rept. Geol. Surv. of Pennsylvania," 1886)
    p. 14: Figure 7-1 (Map). Lehman, Ambrose E. 1889.
  4. ↑ "Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search".
  5. ↑ "Excursions" (Google News Archives). Gettysburg Compiler. 29 July 1884. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  6. ↑ http://techterms.net/ironwork/TAIME/pdf/TAIME_vol_10.pdf
  7. ↑ "Albert Cook Myers Collection Inventory" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
  8. ↑ "First Gettysburg Excursion to Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archives). Gettysburg Compiler. 13 May 1884. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ "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.
  11. ↑ "Gettysburg & Harrisburg R. R. [schedule]". Gettysburg Compiler. 25 May 1885. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  12. ↑ The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition (Google Books). 1904. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  13. 1 2 "Would Restore Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Times. 11 January 1913. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
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