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Schoenberger’s Park and the Meadow Gang
Jim Gerhart, February 2020 Before Farnum (now Culliton), Rodney, Brandon, and Crystal Parks in southwest Lancaster City, and before larger regional parks such as Rocky Springs, People’s, and Maple Grove, there was a large park known as Schoenberger’s Park on the eastern edge of Cabbage Hill. It was a popular place for various family and social gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. Unfortunately, it also was home to a gang that plagued the park and all of southern Lancaster for many years. William August Schoenberger was three years old in 1851 when he immigrated to Lancaster from Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, with his parents, August and Catharine Schoenberger. His father was a wealthy brewer, and William learned the brewing trade working in his father’s saloon on the east side of North Queen Street above Orange. In 1869, when William was 21, he purchased a little more than nine acres of rugged land on the eastern slope of Cabbage Hill just west of…
Schoenberger’s Park and the Meadow Gang
Jim Gerhart, February 2020 Before Farnum (now Culliton), Rodney, Brandon, and Crystal Parks in southwest Lancaster City, and before larger … Continue reading “Schoenberger’s Park and the Meadow Gang”
Extreme Sledding on Dinah’s Hill
Jim Gerhart, January 2020 “The narrow, icy path in the middle of the long and very steep grade was as … Continue reading “Extreme Sledding on Dinah’s Hill”