New Castle, PENNSYLVANIA - Cascade Park- 1937

Description: New Castle, PENNSYLVANIA - Cascade Park- 1937 - Amusement / Nature Park: New Castle is the county seat of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Pittsburgh, and near the Pennsylvania–Ohio border, just 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Youngstown, Ohio. The population was 23,273 as of the 2010 census. It is the commercial center of a fertile agricultural region. Cascade Park is a nature park and former amusement park in New Castle, Pennsylvania. The park was originally known as Big Run Falls when the area on which the park sits was purchased by Col. Levi Brinton in 1892. Power companies at the turn of the twentieth century found they could make profits developing amusement parks, so in 1897, the New Castle Traction Company (later known as the Pennsylvania Power Company, or Penn Power) bought the property from Col. Brinton. When the company held a contest for the park's name, ten-year-old Edwina Norris won ten dollars for submitting the name Cascade Park. The park opened on May 29, 1897. The park was accessible not only via local trolley service but also via the Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway, which later became the Harmony Short Line Motor Transportation Company' bus company. This Linen Era (1930-45) postcard is in good condition. "C.T. American Art." Curt Teich Co. Chicago. No. 7A-H2978. Warner Photo Shop. New Castle, Pa.

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