Comments on: Pre-park history: Scroggie Valley! https://glenprovidencepark.org/2011/09/15/pre-park-history-scroggie-valley/ Preserving and enhancing Delaware County's oldest park Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:40:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Dave Black https://glenprovidencepark.org/2011/09/15/pre-park-history-scroggie-valley/#comment-541 Wed, 09 May 2012 17:31:12 +0000 http://glenprovidencepark.org/?p=169#comment-541 In reply to stephanie.

You’re welcome…Also I once heard Frank Lees (A true Media Treasure) say that Scroggie meant “Wild Duck”…thought of that when I saw it defined as meaning underbrush.I will check in from time to time with more memories.Thanks…Dave,Carly,Phil and Taz(My three dogs who also love The Park!)

]]> By: stephanie https://glenprovidencepark.org/2011/09/15/pre-park-history-scroggie-valley/#comment-540 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:21:15 +0000 http://glenprovidencepark.org/?p=169#comment-540 In reply to Dave Black.

Hi Dave, How fun to hear of your memories of the Park Guard, hide and seek, the Iron Spring, and the Eleanor Butler Waterfall! We found what we think is the location of the drinking spring, but it is now difficult to access. Actually, its location is right along the edge of what may be filled in for the proposed dam replacement. I would love to see the park as it was in its early decades, but we are enjoying our work to restore it now. Thank you for your kind words, and for appreciating the park!

]]> By: Dave Black https://glenprovidencepark.org/2011/09/15/pre-park-history-scroggie-valley/#comment-539 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:12:01 +0000 http://glenprovidencepark.org/?p=169#comment-539 Really enjoyed your website. I am a daily dog walker at the Park and have lived nearby my entire 54 years. As a child we played Army,hide and seek and explored the park all year long.We hid from the Park Guard and scared each other with tales of “The Sheep Man” who walked the park at night with a severed sheep head! Reading about “The Iron Spring” brought to mind a spring that we always drank from each time we went to the Park. At the bottom of the zig-zag trail coming from the Kirk Lane entrance…if you made a left heading toward the waterfall there was an iron pipe sticking out of the hill with ice cold spring water flowing out.A steel grate served as a drain and I often wonder what became of it. Also,I never visit without looking at the plaque that still remains at the bottom of a long gone waterfall dedicated to Elinor Reed Butler.The park was and still is very special place to me and the vandalism and neglect that it has suffered in the last 25 years or so is sad. Appreciate your efforts on the park’s behalf and I hope that the present generation does not vandalize and destroy what you are trying to accomplish. I have a half century of Glen Providence memories in my heart and head…e-mail me if you wish.Thank You….Dave Black

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