Rock Springs Park

The Fourth of July was the biggest day of the year at Rock Springs Park for many decades. Some of the more notable July 4 events are featu...

Most of us understand that not everything we read, especially on the internet, is true. As a teacher, I believe everyone should read, and...

Saturday, May 9, 1908 On this date in Rock Springs Park history, owner C.A. Smith and his partner, park manager J.H. Maxwell, come up w...

Rock Springs Park owes its birth and death to two different bridges which spanned the Ohio River from East Liverpool to Chester, WV over the...

In the first part of this series of blog posts, I told of Clarence Durbin and Alvin and Hazel Babb who worked at Rock Springs Park and liv...

Rock Springs Park owner, C.A. Smith, also operated a coal mine along the west bank of Beaver Creek near Island Run (downstream from Grimm...

Sunday, April 14, 1867 On this date in history, Rock Springs Park owner, Charles (C.A.) Smith, was born in Wellsville, Ohio, where he began ...

(The C.A. Smith House in 1910, prior to an addition which was added in the 1930s.) The Fox Family, owners of the retirement community The Or...

For decades train excursionists would disembark on Ninth Street and walk past the Old Stone House (green arrow) on their way to a day of fun...

(Courtesy of Sayre W. Graham, Jr.; from the collection of Sayre W. Graham, Sr.) In my previous blog entry, I posted this image of Rock S...

When the image above was posted on Facebook’s “You grew up in Chester or Lawrenceville if you remember...” page, I commented, “It's li...

As if to illustrate the long connection between Rock Springs Park and the local school system, this image shows the parking lot of the old C...

In order to take control of the Upper Ohio Valley's baseball business, Rock Springs Park owner, C.A. Smith, and his partner, park mana...

To the right of Citizen's Drug Store in downtown Chester, WV, is a red brick building operating with two businesses in both sides. The f...

One of my favorite rides in Kennywood Park, Pittsburgh, PA is the Auto Race. It is a fun and rather tame flat ride which allows your child t...

Images of America: Rock Springs Park , page 9, mentions the advertisement (left) featured in Roy C. Cashdollar’s The History of Chester: Gat...

In his third year as manager of Rock Springs Park C. C. Macdonald kicked off the 1928 season with lots of advertising and articles which app...