Ellwood City, founded in 1892 as a resort town, had a beautiful amusement park like almost every other city at that time. There was a time when about 2,000 parks existed around the country, many parks were built as "Trolley Parks", meaning they were built at the end of a trolley line, as a way to get people to ride the trolleys. Ellwood City's Rock Point Park, was built with almost the same concept in mind but as a "Railroad Park". Unfortunately, the beginning of the end of Rock Point occurred in 1914 when a spark from the train's engine started a fire that destroyed most of the park. Rock Point Park was one of the thousands of parks that didn't survive into the 1990's.
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Another Rock Point Park Site
Since this site was a created in 1999, a site devoted entirely to Rock Point Park was created. There's a lot of news surrounding the current property of Rock Point. Visit the following link for a wealth of information.
