Pine Creek Township takes ownership of Woolrich Park

AVIS, PA – The transfer of ownership for Woolrich Park has been completed. The township supervisors at their Wednesday monthly meeting, accepted ownership from Clinton County. The transfer all but assures the popular gathering place in the village of Woolrich will remain intact as a community park, as it has been for better than a century.

Supervisor approval marks the end of an ownership journey from Woolrich, Inc to Clinton County to the township which plans to set up a committee to oversee its operation. The Woolrich organization, which in recent years had divested itself of much of its woolen operations in the village, had approached the county about deeding the park to an entity which would preserve the park in its present state, rather than allow the site to be converted to some other use.

County commissioners Angela Harding and Jeff Snyder attended the supervisors’ meeting; Harding said the Woolrich organization had been “open, generous and transparent” through the change in ownership process.

The agreement between the township and the county says ownership would revert back to the county should the township decide to not to continue to see the park remain in its current use.