As you wind around the back roads of South Park in Allegheny County you will come across Hundred Acres Manor a Haunted Attraction used during Halloween.
But this property served a much darker Past during the era of Jim Crow
It was a Swimming Pool known as Sullys Pool Officially Hundred Acres Pool but more commonly known as " The Ink Well" which is where Blacks where forced to swim and have a fun day at the pool instead of the big beautiful Corrigan Road Pool which was suppose to be open to blacks but they where often discouraged from using it do to Unofficial Jim Crow Laws in Pa. both by Patrons and County Park Police
I remember as a young kid in early 70s swimming in Corrigan when attending the Altar Boys Picnic for St. Basil's and there where a couple black kids but not in 60s when I was a child
https://theclio.com/entry/10999
https://www.floraparkgc.com/property-history
http://old.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20010221spool2.asp
Corrigan closed permanently in 1977 due to too many leaks and cost to maintain it. Became a skate park for a while and now sits abandoned and Sullys closed after the wave pool opened in 80s.
While there was also a North Park Pool in Allegheny County I have never heard of racial problems at this pool but it was much further to get to which is why Corrigan was more popular.
A shameful past of Allegheny County's history and now long forgotten as no one younger than 50 would even remember the pools .
https://pittsburgh.momcollective.com/parenting-perspectives/pittsburgh-jim-crow/
There needs to be memorial markers telling what went on at both pools so this shameful chapter is never forgotten and repeated .
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