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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 Iron Works (1764), and was the site of Laurel Forge (1830), Pine Grove Park (1880s), and a brick plant (1892).
Pine Grove Furnace State Park was home to the Pine Grove Furnace that ceased operations in 1895. Pine Grove Furnace began operations in 1764 to take advantage of the rich iron core deposits in the area. South Mountain Ironworks, as it was formerly known, along with its 17,000 acre property was sold to the State of Pennsylvania in 1914.
In 1921, "Laurel Lake Park" was one of 26 camps built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and maintained by the state for camping tourists, [5] and the public camp was still going strong in 1923. [6] By 1929, the Gettysburg Academy conducted week-end camps at Laurel Dam. [7] (A dam repair was performed in 1929.) Camp Lion was at the Laurel Dam ...
The Pine Grove Furnace facilities were identified as "Pine Grove Iron-Works" by 1782 ("Mr. Eger's iron-works" in 1783), and in addition to water raceways and charcoal hearths (traces of which are still visible), support facilities were built near the works, e.g., the 1829 L-shaped iron master mansion (named "office" in 1872). [13]
Pine Grove Furnace State Park is located in the center of the township along Mountain Creek. The Appalachian Trail crosses the township, passing through the state park. According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 19.8 square miles (51.4 km 2 ), of which 19.8 square miles (51.2 km 2 ) is land and 0.1 square ...
The station had a roundhouse [3] and, by 1872, a depot with siding [4] (the 1877 South Mountain Railway and Mining Company's plan for an 1880 westward rail extension to an ore bed was never built.) [5] "Pine Grove" was listed on the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad's passenger schedule of April 21, 1884; [1] and the SMRR railroad offices and ...
The Appalachian Trail Museum is located in Pine Grove Furnace State Park near Gardners, Pennsylvania, United States, and commemorates the builders, maintainers and hikers of the Appalachian Trail, including those in the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame. [1]
The "first hard day's practice" of the 1903 Dickinson College football team took place at the park. [10] 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, [11] [12] but the park ceased operations c. 1904, and was "in ruins" when the Reading Company laid ...