Pine Grove 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] 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

For the excursion park, also established by Col. Fuller, at the Gettysburg Battlefield, see Round Top Park.

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A January 1913 plan to restore the private park was superseded by the commonwealth's purchase of the surrounding area, which is now Pine Grove Furnace State Park.[13]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 2011-05-21.
  2. "Pine Grove Furnace Collection". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (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 Cite journal requires |journal= (help) per year.
    p. 12: Figure 6-2 (Map). Invilliers, Edward V. d'. 1886. 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. https://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. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20110809061604/http://www.chestercohistorical.org/photoarchive/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/411141myers2008.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 9, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. "First Gettysburg Excursion to Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archives). Gettysburg Compiler. May 13, 1884. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  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 2011-05-14.
  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. 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. "Would Restore Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Times. January 11, 1913. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
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