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The park was originally known as Big Run Falls when the site was purchased by Col. Levi Brinton in 1892. [1] At the turn of the twentieth century, power companies realized they could make profits developing amusement parks, so in 1897, the New Castle Traction Company (later the Pennsylvania Power Company) bought the property from Col. Brinton. [1]
The ballpark was located at East Washington Street & Cascade Boulevard in New Castle. [33] In 1897, the New Castle Traction Company (later known as the Pennsylvania Power Company), bought the property from Col. Levi Brinton, who had purchased the land in 1892. [34] Named after a waterfall within the park, Cascade Park opened on May 29, 1897.
While the official Ricketts Glen State Park web page also classifies waterfalls as either the bridal-veil or wedding-cake type, [11] Brown's Pennsylvania waterfalls: a guide for hikers and photographers uses four types for classification: falls, cascade, slide, and chute. The first, falls, is the same as the DCNR's bridal-veil type, with water ...
The Warners, residents of nearby Youngstown, Ohio, were sons of Polish Jews wanting to break into the newly-established and burgeoning film business. After successfully presenting a used copy of The Great Train Robbery at Idora Park in Youngstown, [1] the brothers traveled to New Castle to screen the movie in a vacant store on a site that would later become the Cascade Center. [2]
Smithfield Township’s long-awaited Marshalls Falls Park officially opened to the public on Friday, April 12. The township bought the 15-acre parcel that makes up the bulk of the park in 2008 ...
Cascade Park may refer to, Cascade Park (amusement park) Cascade Park West, Washington; Cascade Park East, Washington; Cascade Park, New Castle, Pennsylvania; Cascade Park in Duluth; Cascade Park in Yerevan (Monuments of Yerevan#Cascade)
Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,193 acres (5,280 ha) in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Ricketts Glen is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls along Kitchen Creek, which flows down the Allegheny Front escarpment from the Allegheny Plateau to the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.
Fulmer Falls waterfall. The George W. Childs Recreation Site is a former Pennsylvania state park that is the site of a number of cascade waterfalls along Dingmans Creek; it has been part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area since 1983.