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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]
Birdsboro is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located along the Schuylkill River 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Reading. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 5,106. [3] Birdsboro's economy had historically been rooted in large foundries and machine shops, none of which remain in operation today.
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]
Heritage's new Adventure Park is now open after a history of litigation and false starts. But museum and park leaders say the park is worth the wait. Heritage aerial climbing park opens in Sandwich.
Location of Berks County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Berks County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
People walking along lower State Street can look into the front windows of Ascend Erie and see a new, 24-foot-high indoor rock climbing wall. Tucked away from view, however, is a bigger wall that ...
French Creek State Park is a 7,977-acre (3,228 ha) Pennsylvania state park in North Coventry and Warwick Townships in Chester County and Robeson and Union Townships in Berks County, Pennsylvania. [3] It straddles northern Chester County and southern Berks County along French Creek .
It rises above Nockamixon State Park, in the Delaware River drainage of southeastern Pennsylvania. [1] Early settlers named it simply for its "resemblance to a cock of hay." [5] Haycock is covered with numerous triassic diabase boulders, and is a bouldering destination with many established routes ranging from V0 to V10+. [3]