Pine Grove Park Explained

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 .[2] It operated from to .

Fuller also owned a farm in the area, and established the railroad's Round Top Park at the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1884.[3]

History

The Fuller Cornet Band often performed at the park.[4] Pine Grove Park hosted the American Institute of Mine Engineers on October 27, 1881,[5] and J.C. Fuller’s Fifth Annual Reunion on September 18, 1883.[6] 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 200yd rifle range.[7]

A Baldwin steam car carried visitors between the park and the nearby iron works. The "first hard day's practice" of the 1903 Dickinson College football team took place at the park.[8] 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,[9]

Notes and References

  1. Book: 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 . 2011-05-21 .
  2. Web site: Pine Grove Furnace Collection . . 2011-05-13.
  3. Web site: Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search.
  4. News: July 29, 1884 . Excursions . Google News Archives . Gettysburg Compiler . 2010-05-20.
  5. http://techterms.net/ironwork/TAIME/pdf/TAIME_vol_10.pdf
  6. Web site: Albert Cook Myers Collection Inventory . January 16, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110809061604/http://www.chestercohistorical.org/photoarchive/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/411141myers2008.pdf . August 9, 2011 .
  7. News: May 13, 1884 . First Gettysburg Excursion to Pine Grove Park . Google News Archives . Gettysburg Compiler . 2011-05-11.
  8. Web site: 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 . New York Times . 1903-09-13 . 2012-01-29.
  9. Book: 1904 . The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition . Google Books . 2011-05-19.
  10. News: January 11, 1913 . Would Restore Pine Grove Park . Google News Archive . Gettysburg Times . 2011-05-29.
  11. News: May 25, 1885 . Gettysburg & Harrisburg R. R. [schedule] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PVQmAAAAIBAJ&dq=calvin-gilbert%20foundry&pg=2268%2C3295687 |access-date=2011-05-12 |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler}}[9] but the park ceased operations, and was "in ruins" when the Reading Company laid new tracks near the former park in 1912.[10]

    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.

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