Pine Grove Park was an excursion park on the

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line. It was located in

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, "in a grove of magnificent trees". It was established by Colonel Jackson C. Fuller . It operated from to . Fuller also owned a farm in the area, and established the railroad's

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at the

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in 1884.

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The Fuller Cornet Band often performed at the park. Pine Grove Park hosted the American Institute of Mine Engineers on October 27, 1881, and J.C. Fuller’s Fifth Annual Reunion on September 18, 1883. 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

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, and a rifle range. A

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carried visitors between the park and the nearby iron works. The "first hard day's practice" of the 1903

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football team took place at the park. Both Pine Grove Park and

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were listed in 1904 as railway stations on the

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, but the park ceased operations , and was "in ruins" when the

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laid new tracks near the former park in 1912. A January 1913 plan to restore the private park was superseded by the commonwealth's purchase of the surrounding area.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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