The Birth and Death of Hanover's Forest Park

Course | Registration opens 5/20/2024 8:00 AM EDT

Penn State York, 1031 Edgecomb Avenue York, PA 17403-3398 United States

Main Classroom Bldg, Conference Center, 31 B and C

Members and nonmembers

7/16/2024 (one day)

1:00 PM-2:30 PM EDT on Tue

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$8.00

By 1921, the York County trolley system had sixty-eight cars with eighty-five miles of track carrying almost 11 million riders.  They created and owned four trolley parks in the county.  Charles Stambaugh of North Eastern York County History in Preservation takes us back in time and touches on this first system of mass transportation in York County.  He specifically zeros in on one of the trolley parks called Forest Park located in Hanover, Pennsylvania.  Watch as it developed into a great amusement park.  Then learn how it died a slow death being replaced by a shopping mall.  

Charles Stambaugh is the founder and president of North Eastern York County History in Preservation (NeyChip). He was involved with Mount Wolf Borough, Manchester Borough, and Conewago Township historical celebrations. NeyChip received the York County History Center Local History Organization 2022 award. He has given two presentations at OLLI in 2019. He has coordinated history talks with Red Land Community Library for the past three years. He has also given talks at York Writer's Round Table and York's Second Saturday lectures.