In 1798, Valentine Cunningham dammed Wolf Creek in a wild Pennsylvania landscape for the purpose of starting a mill. By 1876, when Isaac Ketler came to start the nationally recognized Grove City College, it was a thriving village known as Pine Grove. Flowing outward from Cunningham's mill, the area now known as Grove City doubled in size, and it doubled again during the early twentieth century.
Marketing slogans such as "Where Industry and Education Unite" and "No saloons" described the expanding town. Prohibitionist sentiments peaked when local tycoon Edwin Fithian ran for U.S. senator on the Prohibition ticket in the 1920s. All the while in the background, Wolf Creek provided the city with inspiration, energy, and recreation and was even once set ablaze.
Grove City looks back at the rich history of this growing Pennsylvania community.
| ISBN: | 9780738535555 |
| Publication date: | 29th June 2004 |
| Author: | Mike S Adams |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing an imprint of Arcadia Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 127 pages |
| Series: | Postcard History Series |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas |
In 1798, Valentine Cunningham dammed Wolf Creek in a wild Pennsylvania landscape for the purpose of starting a mill. By 1876, when Isaac Ketler came to start the nationally recognized Grove City College, it was a thriving village known as Pine Grove.
Grove City features in the following genres: History of the Americas
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Grove City was written by Mike S Adams and published by Arcadia Publishing an imprint of Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Grove City has 127 pages
Yes it is part of Postcard History Series series