Editing Grove City, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[file: Grove City aerial shot 2024-06-15 2.jpg|thumb|left|Grove City in 2024, photographed from 2000ft above the ground.]]
In 1798, Valentine Cunningham and his family from [[Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania]] settled along Wolf Creek, building a gristmill with fellow [[American Revolutionary War]] veteran and settler Robert Glenn on the creek in 1799 and naming the area Pine Grove.<ref name="chronology">{{cite web|url=https://www.grovecityhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Historical-Chronology.compressed.pdf |title=Historical Chronology Of Grove City, Pennsylvania |publisher=Grove City Area Historical Society |date=May 10, 2011 |access-date=January 16, 2023 }}</ref><ref name="chamber">{{cite web|url=https://grovecityareachamber.com/community-3/history/ |title=History of Grove City, PA |publisher=Grove City Area Chamber of Commerce |access-date=January 16, 2023 }}</ref> About a mile north, another community was drafted surrounding a gristmill, named Slabtown. In the early years of the 19th century, Cunningham built a sawmill and schoolhouse in Pine Grove, while Robert Moore built up the area around Slabtown with a sawmill and small businesses.<ref name="chronology" /> By 1837, Cunningham's sons J.G. and Charles returned to Pine Grove to continue its expansion, formally laying it out around this time.<ref name="chronology" /><ref name="chamber" />

By the 1850s, a Wolf Creek post office had been formed to serve both communities as they became increasingly merged.<ref name="chronology" /> Pine Grove Academy, the precursor to [[Grove City College]], was established in 1858. Around the same time, large [[Coal mining in the United States|coal deposits]] were discovered in the area, kickstarting a mining industry.<ref name="chronology" /> The Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad was extended to Pine Grove in 1872, and Pine Grove Normal Academy was chartered to grant degrees in 1876.<ref name="chronology" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gcc.edu/Home/Our-Story/History/Timeline |title=Grove City College Timeline |publisher=Grove City College |access-date=January 21, 2020}}</ref> On January 1, 1883, the borough of Grove City was incorporated, changing its name as [[Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania|Pine Grove, Schuylkill County]] was already established.<ref name="chronology" /><ref name="chamber" /> [[George Junior Republic (Pennsylvania)|George Junior Republic]] was established in 1909.