Rock Springs Park

Friday, September 8, 1978 On this date in Rock Springs Park history, Roy C. Cashdollar began a 3-year negotiation with West Virginia Con...

Friday, May 24, 1907 The Rock Springs Park Scenic Railway opened on this date in the park's history. It was built at a cost of $35,0...

Apparently, I am not alone in my frenzy to look up information in the 1940 U.S. Census. According to Google.com, the census was the most 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...

"Eddie" McGraw was a “swing band” orchestra leader who played throughout the Tri-State Region of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and ...

One of the comments I received after the first two of my book talks, was that older people who remember the park wished to see and hear mor...

A recent tornado which wreaked havoc in my present hometown of Greensburg, PA, and the subsequent news videos and images, left me in a somb...

DeMar Miller Orchestra at the world famous Virginia Gardens in Rock Springs Park circa 1928. (Courtesy of Jerry Linger) My original purpose...