Rock Springs Park
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
A Walk Through the Park in 1906
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What features and attractions greeted excursionists to Rock Springs Park in the early C.A. Smith Years? The Transit Journal of 1906 gives u...
Monday, April 9, 2012
Who Named Chester and When Was It Founded?
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Do a quick history-search of the home of Rock Springs Park, Chester, W.V., online and you will get dozens of hits explaining that the city o...
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Clap-Trap Features Nonexistent
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Ever wonder why Rock Springs Park was considered "The Showplace of the East"? Perhaps because it was "charmingly situated...
Saturday, April 7, 2012
The Swimming Tank
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A book I recently discovered entitled, “The Street Railway Transit Journal, Volume 28," published in 1906, gives some insightful detail...
2 More Pretzels, Please
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Yesterday, I posted about the Pretzel Spook House Ride in Rock Springs Park. Besides this very popular dark ride, Rock Springs had two other...
Friday, April 6, 2012
Why A Pretzel?
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Scot Campbell of Toronto, OH, sent me this delightful photo of himself and his girlfriend, Sally Hughes Porter, on the Rock Springs Park Pre...
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Highway Stake
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On page 117 of Images of America: Rock Springs Park I wrote, "In 1974 the lower picnic area was being flagged to mark the route of the...
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