Fuller also owned a farm in the area, and established the railroad's Round Top Park at the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1884.
[5] Pine Grove Park hosted the American Institute of Mine Engineers on October 27, 1881,[6] and J.C. Fuller’s Fifth Annual Reunion on September 18, 1883.
[7] By July 1884, the park included a green field for baseball and other games, water fountains, lunch tables & seats, a dancing pavilion, a bowling alley, children's swings, a carousel, and a 200 yd (180 m) rifle range.
[8] A Baldwin steam car carried visitors between the park and the nearby iron works.
[13] A January 1913 plan to restore the private park was superseded by the commonwealth's purchase of the surrounding area.