This page is dedicated to information that we have obtained that has been communicated about the Lincoln Park area.
- Around
the early fifties in the back right corner of the playground, there was
a mine shaft/hole where a little hill was at the corner of the ramps.
Word was a boy and his dog fell in and died and they filled up the hole
after that. The strange dirt that made up the ramps came from that mine
hole-some sort of iron ore mine.
- During the 50s, it was rumored that a child fell in one of the sinkholes and died.
- There was a farm near the school in the early 50s, believed to be the Hettinger Farm.
- In the early 60s, sewers were installed and there were floods during that time that flooded basements.
- Houses were moved in the late 60s/early 70s to make way for the bypass.
- Hurricane Agnes in 1972 caused great flooding.
- Jefferson Avenue was referenced to looking like a swimming pool.
- Amherst Court by the tennis courts would flood anytime there was heavy rain.
- The creek bed coming out of the woods where the tennis courts are now flooded so much that it was like a little river.
- Run off from the mountain came down into the valley from Old Fritztown Road.
- The Hettinger property was condemned in 1975.
- There were tennis court apartments.
- Some parents worried about the mine shaft and sinkholes in the fields and woods and wouldn't let their children play in those areas.
- There was a known mine hole that had rocks and water at the rear right end of the playground.
- A spillway was made from behind the tennis courts to where the Giant store is located now.
- Spring Township owns the athletic field and playground.
- There were occasional field fires that would start up near Lincoln Park Elementary School. The fire department had to come out to put out the fires near the Florens.
- It was announced in 2013 that West Wyomissing and Lincoln Park Elementary Schools were to be demolished.
- The elementary schools have asbestos issues.
$3500 Granted for Land Taken by School Board:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v8ctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=15sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3731,4560257&dq=hettinger+farm+lincoln+park&hl=en
Flood study offer Rejected Newspaper Article dated July 29, 1975:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Zg9XAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KEMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4239%2c7087134&dq=hettinger+farm+lincoln+park&hl=en
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v8ctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=15sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3731,4560257&dq=hettinger+farm+lincoln+park&hl=en
Flood study offer Rejected Newspaper Article dated July 29, 1975:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Zg9XAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KEMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4239%2c7087134&dq=hettinger+farm+lincoln+park&hl=en