Mount Holly Park
Mount Holly Park was a summer resort developed along Mountain Creek Mountain Creek is a ski resort in Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. It is located on New Jersey Route 94, from the George Washington Bridge. Mountain Creek contains of skiing area, night skiing, snowboardin ... in Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania. The park opened in 1901, but went into decline from 1918, and closed . History Mount Holly Park was originally opened in 1901 by Harrisburg entrepreneur Patricio Russ, serving as the attraction for his "Trolley to Holly" line. The park began near the Holly Inn and continued south for approximately 1 mile along Mountain Creek. In 1904, Russ leased additional property, including an artificial lake. The lake was originally created in the 1880s by damming Mountain Creek and had been used to supply water and generate power for the nearby paper mills. Russ extended the trolley line to provide direct access to the lake. Visitors would ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mountain Creek (Yellow Breeches Creek Tributary)
Mountain Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of Yellow Breeches Creek in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Course Mountain Creek starts in the South Mountain (Maryland and Pennsylvania), South Mountain Range and Michaux State Forest and flows through them and Pine Grove Furnace State Park. After leaving the state park, the stream runs through Toland, Pennsylvania, Toland and the Holly Gap Marsh Preserve. It flows through the borough of Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, Mount Holly Springs and joins with Yellow Breeches Creek near the borough. Upper Mountain Creek is impounded by two dams to create mountain reservoirs, Laurel Lake (Cumberland County, Pennsylvania), Laurel Lake and Fuller Lake. Tributaries * Hunters Run * Tagg Run * Sage Run * Iron Run * Toms Run Recreation Mountain Creek is a popular stocked trout stream, stocked with Brook, Brown, and Rainbow trout. In the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania
Mount Holly Springs is a borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The borough is lcoated 25 miles north of Gettysburg. The population was 2,030 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area. Geography Mount Holly Springs is located in south-central Cumberland County at (40.116063, -77.186751), at the northern foot of the South Mountain range. Mountain Creek runs through the center of the borough, exiting the mountains via a water gap between Mount Holly to the west and Keller Hill to the east. Mountain Creek is a tributary of Yellow Breeches Creek, which flows east to the Susquehanna River. The borough limits extend south through the water gap to the Upper Mill area. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , of which is land and , or 6.45%, is water. The borough is surrounded by South Middleton Township but is a separate municipality. History The Pennsylvania Guide, compiled by the Writers' Program o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amusement Parks Closed In 1928
Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or animal actively maintains the experience, and is associated with enjoyment, happiness, laughter and pleasure. It is an emotion with positive valence and high physiological arousal. Amusement is considered an "epistemological" emotion because humor occurs when one experiences a cognitive shift from one knowledge structure about a target to another, such as hearing the punchline of a joke. The pleasant surprise that happens from learning this new information leads to a state of amusement which people often express through smiling, laughter or chuckling. Current studies have not yet reached consensus on the exact purpose of amusement, though theories have been advanced in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and sociology. In addition, the precise mechanism that causes a given element (image, sound, behavior, etc.) to be perceived as more or less 'amusing' than another simil ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Defunct Amusement Parks In Pennsylvania
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1901 Establishments In Pennsylvania
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