Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania Children's Lake, in the center of Boiling Springs Children's Lake, in the center of Boiling Springs Boiling Springs is positioned in Pennsylvania Boiling Springs - Boiling Springs Boiling Springs is a census-designated place (CDP) in South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States, and is part of the Harrisburg urbane area.

Boiling Springs is positioned on the easterly side of South Middleton Township at 40 09 25 N 77 07 57 W, on the north side of Yellow Breeches Creek.

Boiling Springs gets its name from the natural artesian well springs positioned in and around the town.

Boiling Springs rates seventh in size of springs in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Two vertical diabase dikes, made up of highly impermeable igneous basalt parent rock, cut through the limestone bedrock in the region and form a subterranean "V", with Boiling Springs positioned at the interior tip of the V. Due to the positive pressure created by this confinement, water is pushed up to the surface and out of the artesian aquifer, giving the impression of "boiling" springs.

It is positioned directly behind the Boiling Springs Tavern, at the intersection of 1st Street and Front Street.

The name of the Boiling Springs High School mascot, "The Bubblers", was inspired by this spring.

Historic grist foundry in Boiling Springs This 1795 Georgian structure is the most outstanding example of architecture in the Boiling Springs Historic District and of primary historical significance as the home of the Ege family.

Boiling Springs and South Middleton Township, which are near the halfway point of the 2,200-mile (3,500 km) Appalachian Trail, were designated Pennsylvania's first Appalachian Trail Community.

As of 2012, Boiling Springs is one of 23 designated Appalachian Trail Communities.

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Office of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is positioned at 4 East First Street in Boiling Springs, sharing space with the Boiling Springs Appalachian Trail Information Center. As one of only four county-wide offices along the trail, the staff covers New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia south through Shenandoah National Park.

Hikers often mail themselves packages to pick up at the Boiling Springs Post Office, which is just feet from the trail.

The Boiling Springs Pool offers hikers a shower for $1, and there are a several bed and breakfasts, a close-by campground and even a resident who lets hikers sleep in the backyard.

Boiling Springs was settled by Europeans before to 1737. The springs were partially dammed in the 1750s to furnish water power for iron production, with raw materials of iron ore, timber and limestone plentiful in the neighboring mountain peaks.

Daniel Kaufman, who laid out the village of Boiling Springs in 1845, purchased 48 acres (19 ha) from his father, Abraham, in 1843.

Kaufman and Boiling Springs played a part in the Underground Railroad.

Boiling Springs is now part of the Network to Freedom, a series of noteworthy sites along the Underground Railroad. Boiling Springs became a resort community, with travelers coming to picnic and boat on the lake, with such park attractions as a dance pavilion, picnic pavilion, miniature steam stockyards and a merry-go-round.

The Boiling Springs Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Episode #13 of the second season of the classic TV series Route 66 was set in and filmed in Boiling Springs.

Opening day of trout season, Yellow Breeches Creek, Boiling Springs Recreation continues to bring citizens to Boiling Springs, ranging from fly-fishing on Yellow Breeches Creek to theater, dining and lodging at Allenberry Resort, which opened in the summer of 1946.

The Boiling Springs Tavern, a restaurant in downtown Boiling Springs, is a prominent dining destination.

Boiling Springs has an annual juried arts and crafts show, called Foundry Day, on the first Saturday in June.

Teams problematic their own vessel and then paddle the boat from one end of Children's Lake (near the Boiling Springs Tavern) to the other end (near the Grist Mill and the Boiling Springs Pool).

The Boiling Springs Pool was assembled in 1927 by Gilbert Malcolm, husband of Helen Bucher.

"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Boiling Springs CDP, Pennsylvania".

[1974], Springs of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Office of Resources Management, Water Resources Bulletin 10, 46 p.

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Historic South Middleton Township: an Illustrated History of Boiling Springs and Surrounding South Middleton Areas, [printed by] Conley & Enck, Lemoyne, PA, 1976, pp.

A Detailed History of Boiling Springs, PA A Walking Guide to Boiling Springs Visitors to Boiling Springs Drawn by History, Recreation.

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