Green Park, Pennsylvania

Places of interest include Bernheisel’s Mill, an 18th-century cemetery on the site of the former Limestone Presbyterian Church,[1] and the Green Park School House.

It is bordered on the east by the Tyrone Township-Spring Township line, the west by the village limits of Loysville, the north by the top of Limestone Ridge, and the south by Stonehouse Road.

Alexander Roddy, who later built the initial grist mill in Perry County, Pennsylvania, was the first pioneer to live in what is now Green Park.

He built a cabin of poles in the early 1750s by a spring on what later became the Stambaugh's Woods picnic and camp meeting grounds (now part of Green Pastures Farms).

After the 1754 Treaty of Albany transferred lands in central Pennsylvania, including Perry County, from the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy to John and Richard Penn Sr., Roddy returned, but to a new location.

The western side of Green Park sits on a 530-acre tract warranted originally to Ludwig Laird in 1755, and surveyed to Henry Shoemaker in 1814.

The eastern part lies on a tract of 50 acres warranted to Alexander Sanderson, who transferred it to John Henry Barnheisel (Bernheisel) on February 2, 1755.

Soon thereafter, James Baxter warranted property east of Bernheisel's in the present location of West Perry High School, and named the tract "Green Park."

The school bell, cast by the Rheem & Brothers foundry in Green Park, can be heard during open houses held each summer.

By 1860, another son Peter (1826–1905) owned an iron foundry, known as P. Bernheisel & Company, immediately to the west of the present historic Green Park School.

History of Perry County, Pennsylvania: Including Descriptions of Indians and Pioneer Life from the Time of Earliest Settlement (1922) by Harry Harrison Hain[7] 2.