OUTINGS, PICNICS & EXCURSIONS Part 2

MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS  OUTING AT ROCK POINT PARK AUGUST 20, 1911

The Ellwood Citizen of August 11, 1911 reported that "Rock Point will see the largest crowd of happy people ever gathered at that popular resort." A man who attended this event and watched the St. Clair Girls balloon ascension is quoted in an undated clipping from the Ellwood City Ledger. He said that a man holding one of the ropes on the balloon was lifted 60 feet before he let loose and broke a leg in his fall. One girl jumped with a parachute while over the park & the other stayed with the balloon which landed a few miles away. The park closed forever after the Labor Day Weekend, the 1912 Merchants and Manufacturers outing was held at the Country Club grounds in now what is the borough of Ellport.

Newspaper advertisement from the August 11, 1911 Ellwood Citizen

Ellwood City scene with banner over Lawrence Ave. marked "Come to the Merchants & Manufacturers outing at Rock Point"

Ad printed on the back of the above  postcard

Ribbon issued for the Fourth Annual M & M Outing

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