Cool Breezes and Aunt Minnie’s Jam

Monday, June 20, 1904

On this date in Rock Springs Park History, The Daily Tribune, Beaver Falls, PA reported on the inagural run of The Rock Springs Special - an evening trolley excursion during the workweek to Rock Springs Park “so that the townspeople in the Beaver Valley area could enjoy the cool, life-giving, ozone-laden breezes from the pine-clad mountains of West Virginia.” Read the full account at http://rockspringspark.blogspot.com/2011/06/good-for-what-ails-you.html.

Thursday, June 20, 1940

The Daily Times exclaimed on this date in 1940: "More prizes than Aunt Minnie’s jam ever won in the good old days of the County Fair!" The folks of Rochester, PA, are on their way to Rock Springs Park for an outing of the Rochester Board of Trade. Read about the excursion and its interestung contests and unusual prizes at http://rockspringspark.blogspot.com/2011/02/getting-there-was-half-fun.html.