. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 31-33. Forests and forestry. IN PENN*S WOODS Lincoln Highway, and is annually visited by thousands of tourists. Local inhabitants regard it as the favorite picnic spot. This park is named for the old charcoal iron furnace which was located here in 1873, and which was at one time conducted by the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, famous abolitionist and statesman, and father of the public school system of J ^/j PINEY MX *;» FIRE,;'TOWeR. Pennsylvania, who was born in Cale- donia county, Vt. In August, 1927, the Pennsylvania Alpine Club and the Penn- sy
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 31-33. Forests and forestry. IN PENN*S WOODS Lincoln Highway, and is annually visited by thousands of tourists. Local inhabitants regard it as the favorite picnic spot. This park is named for the old charcoal iron furnace which was located here in 1873, and which was at one time conducted by the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, famous abolitionist and statesman, and father of the public school system of J ^/j PINEY MX *;» FIRE,;'TOWeR. Pennsylvania, who was born in Cale- donia county, Vt. In August, 1927, the Pennsylvania Alpine Club and the Penn- sylvania Department of Forests and Wat- ers dedicated a hand- some bronze tablet on the stack of the old furnace, which, with the walls of the blacksmith shop, is all that remains of this early iron works. The furnace was de- stroyed by General J. A. Early's Con- federate cavalrymen in June, 1863. Within the park is the home of the assistant dis- trict forester and a forest ranger, and nearby is the headquarters of the district forester. Here, too, are a small forest tree nursery, and some of the most at- tractive plantations of forest trees in the State. With- in the park is a public camping ground that is filled to xiapacity during the tourist season. All about the park in the State forest are many desirable summer homes on leased camp sites. Here, also, are to be 10 PINC MT. riRE TOWER ^j IN PENN'S WOODS found an excellent bathing pool and the famous Graef- fenburg Inn. A public golf course adjoins the park. The Caledonia State Forest Park is one of the most beautiful spots in the South Mountains, and it is not unusual for all the open spaces to be parked full of automobiles. Many distinguished persons have camped here. Douglas Fairbanks and his wife, Mary Pickford, upon spending a night in the beautiful South Mountain, were loud in their praise of the scenic. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for rea
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