Pine Grove Park

For the similar 1884 railroad park in Adams County, Pennsylvania, established by Col Fuller at the Gettysburg Battlefield, see Round Top Park.

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] east of the Pine Grove Iron Works[3]:14 (Fuller also owned a farm in the area.)[4] 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"ruins" when the Reading Company laid new tracks in 1912.[13] A January 1913 plan to restore the private park[13] was superseded by the commonwealth's purchase of the surrounding area, which is now Pine Grove Furnace State Park.

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 2011-05-21.
  2. ↑ "Pine Grove Furnace Collection". PHMC.state.pa.us. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
  3. ↑ Way, John H (1986). "Your Guide to the Geology of the Kings Gap Area …" ("booklet") (Environmental Geology Report 8). Pennsylvania Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-05-20. At full capacity, an average furnace used 800 bushels of charcoal every 24 hours … 240 or more acres of woodland per year.
    p. 12: Figure 6-2 (Map). Invilliers, Edward V. d'. 1886. (also published: report on the iron ore mines and limestone quarries of the Cumberland-Lebanon Valley, … in the "An. Rept. Geol. Surv. of Pennsylvania," 1886)
    p. 14: Figure 7-1 (Map). Lehman, Ambrose E. 1889.
  4. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BFQmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1659,1043476&dq=fuller+pine-grove&hl=en
  5. ↑ "Excursions" (Google News Archives). Gettysburg Compiler. July 29, 1884. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
  6. ↑ http://techterms.net/ironwork/TAIME/pdf/TAIME_vol_10.pdf
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ "First Gettysburg Excursion to Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archives). Gettysburg Compiler. May 13, 1884. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  9. ↑ Keefer, Horace Andrew (written after January 29, 1927 -- published October 1934). Recollections, Historical and Otherwise, Relating To Old Pine Grove Furnace (Report). Potomac Appalachian Trail Club Bulletin. Retrieved 2011-05-14. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  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. - View Article - NYTimes.com". New York Times. 1903-09-13. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
  11. ↑ "Gettysburg & Harrisburg R. R. [schedule]". Gettysburg Compiler. May 25, 1885. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  12. ↑ The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition (Google Books). 1904. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Would Restore Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Times. January 11, 1913. Retrieved 2011-05-29.