Pine Grove Park was a
South Mountain Railroad excursion park "in a grove of magnificent trees"
established by Colonel Jackson C. Fuller
It was located east of the
Pine Grove Iron Works
The Pine Grove Iron Works was a southcentral Pennsylvania smelting facility during the Industrial Revolution. The works is notable for remaining structures that are historical visitor attractions of Pine Grove Furnace State Park, including the ...
near
Toland in
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, south-central
Pennsylvania
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It was in the
South Mountain Range of the northern
Blue Ridge Mountains
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System.
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Colonel Fuller also owned a farm in the area, and established the railroad's Round Top Park at the ]Gettysburg Battlefield
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in 1884.
History
The park had the "Fuller Cornet Band" for entertainment, and Fuller hosted the American Institute of Mine Engineers in 1881 and "J.C. Fuller’s Fifth Annual Reunion" in 1883. 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 rifle range.steam car
A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE) in which the fuel is combusted outside of the engine, unlike an internal combustion engine (ICE) in which fuel is combusted ins ...
carried visitors between the park and the iron works,[ and the "first hard day's practice" of the 1903 Dickinson College football team was at the park. Both "Pine Grove Park" and " Pine Grove Furnace" were listed in 1904 as railway stations of the ]Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad
The Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad was a railway line from the Hunter's Run junction of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway that ran southwestward along the south side of Mountain Creek to the Pine Grove Iron Works. The line serviced fa ...
,Pine Grove Furnace State Park
Pine Grove Furnace State Park is a protected Pennsylvania area that includes Laurel and Fuller Lakes in Cooke Township of Cumberland County. The Park accommodates various outdoor recreation activities, protects the remains of the Pine Grove ...
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References
External links
{{Commons category, position=left, Pine Grove Furnace State Park
Amusement parks in Pennsylvania
Defunct amusement parks in Pennsylvania
History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Parks in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
South Mountain Range (Maryland−Pennsylvania)
1881 establishments in Pennsylvania