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Opened on May 29th, 1897, the former Brinton Park reopened as Cascade Park by the New Castle Traction Company after their purchase from its previous owner, Col. Levi Brinton. The park evolved over time from the nature park, as it originally existed, into a modern amusement park with rides and attractions that have since almost entirely disappeared, leaving only a few surviving structures today. As the years went on and the park changed hands, it Read more…

We are excited to inform you about the great news of Cascade Park’s eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. In a 10 June letter from Elizabeth Rairigh, Chief of the Preservation Services Division of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), the State Historic Preservation Office reaffirmed their 2000 evaluation of the park as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is, at its core, an Read more…

Carly Plesic is currently an Early American History: Quakers intern for Pleasant Hill Historians for the Spring of 2021 cohort. Carly’s hometown is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is working towards his Master of Arts in History at Duquesne University. Our mission in the Spring of 2021 is to continue research into the history of Quakertown from its humble beginnings in 1798 to its eventual downfall in 1930. In addition to research, we began to look Read more…

In 1882, New Castle’s Opera House ran the matinee “100 Wives”, in which the Mormon religion was seen as a drama on scenes and morality, which is blended with “genuine humor”.[1] While in 1883, the Salt Lake Tribune called the Mormon church “an aristocracy of robbers”.[2] Mormons were at the peak of debate around 1886, at which time the 49th United States Congress passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act, also known as the Anti-Polygamy Act of 1887. Read more…