Editing Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:Carlisle Iron Works Furnace, Boiling Springs, PA.jpg|thumb|Carlisle Iron Works Furnace]]
Boiling Springs was settled by Europeans prior to 1737.<ref>Historic South Middleton Township, pp. 1-2.</ref>

The springs were partially dammed in the 1750s to provide water power for iron production, with raw materials of iron ore, timber and limestone plentiful in the neighboring mountains. The '''Carlisle Iron Works''' was in full production by the 1760s, and a grist mill was built at the end of the lake in 1762. While the foundry's iron was probably used to make ammunition and weapons for the [[Continental Army]], no cannons were made.<ref name="ReferenceA">Richard Tritt and Randy Watts. "At a Place Called the Boiling Springs". [1995]</ref>

Daniel Kaufman, who laid out the village of Boiling Springs in 1845, purchased {{convert|48|acre}} from his father, Abraham, in 1843. He built his 301 Front Street home in 1880.

Kaufman and Boiling Springs played a role in the [[Underground Railroad]]. Kaufman was an Underground Railroad agent from 1835 to 1847. The Underground Railroad asked him to set up a necessary stopover between [[Shippensburg, Pennsylvania|Shippensburg]] and [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]]. Kaufman provided food and transportation to [[fugitive slave]]s passing through the area; his barn and a densely wooded area nearby served as shelter. Kaufman was sued by a [[Maryland]] slave owner in 1847 and convicted in Cumberland County,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.ccpa.net/index.aspx?NID=2643 |title = Historic Timeline of Cumberland County &#124; Cumberland County, PA - Official Website}}</ref> but the verdict was overturned by the [[Supreme Court of Pennsylvania|state Supreme Court]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cumberlandcivilwar.com/kauffman-trials-1847/ |title=Cumberland Civil War » Kauffman Trials (1848) |access-date=2012-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629053411/http://cumberlandcivilwar.com/kauffman-trials-1847/ |archive-date=2013-06-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was then charged in U.S. District Court in [[Philadelphia]] and convicted. He was ultimately fined $4,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US|value=4000|start_year=1852}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) in 1852, in a case that drew wide attention.

Boiling Springs is now part of the Network to Freedom, a series of noteworthy sites along the Underground Railroad.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

The area around the lake was a recreation spot as early as 1875 when a steam launch began to operate to carry picnickers down the mill race to Island Grove, on Yellow Breeches Creek. In 1895, [[trolley car]] lines were added running from Carlisle and Harrisburg. The Valley Traction Company leased the lake in 1900 and built a park as a destination for passengers on their trolleys. 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 railway and a merry-go-round. The trolley was operated until around 1930.<ref>Historic South Middleton Township, pp. 14-22.</ref>

The [[Boiling Springs Historic District]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1984.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

Episode #13 of the second season of the classic TV series [[Route 66 (TV series)|''Route 66'']] was set in and filmed in Boiling Springs. The episode was titled "Burning for Burning" and was first aired on December 29, 1961.