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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.)[3] The park had the "Fuller Cornet Band" for entertainment,[4] and Fuller hosted the American Institute of Mine Engineers in 1881 [4] and "J.C. Fuller’s Fifth Annual Reunion" in 1883.[5] 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.[5] A Baldwin steam car carried visitors between the park and the iron works,[6] and the "first hard day's practice" of the 1903 Dickinson College football team was at the park.[6] Both "Pine Grove Park"[7] and "Pine Grove Furnace" were listed in 1904 as railway stations of the Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad,[8] but the park ended operations c. 1904 and was in "ruins" when the Reading Company laid new tracks in 1912.[9] A January 1913 plan to restore the private park[9] was superseded by the commonwealth's purchase of the surrounding area, which is now Pine Grove Furnace State Park.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"). 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 web}}: External link in |issue= (help) per year.
    p. 12: Figure 6-2 (Map). Invilliers, Edward V. d'[1]. 1886. {{cite map}}: External link in |publisher= (help) (also published: report on the iron ore mines and limestone quarries of the Cumberland-Lebanon Valley,[2] … in the "An. Rept. Geol. Surv. of Pennsylvania," 1886)
    p. 14: Figure 7-1 (Map). Lehman, Ambrose E. 1889.
  4. ^ "Excursions" (Google News Archives). Gettysburg Compiler. July 29, 1884. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
  5. ^ "First Gettysburg Excursion to Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archives). Gettysburg Compiler. May 13, 1884. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  6. ^ 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. {{cite report}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |last= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Gettysburg & Harrisburg R. R. [schedule]". Gettysburg Compiler. May 25, 1885. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  8. ^ The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition (Google Books). 1904. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  9. ^ a b "Would Restore Pine Grove Park" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Times. January 11, 1913. Retrieved 2011-05-29.