Gravity Hill - New Paris -Pennsylvania

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Gravity Hill
New Paris, Pennsylvania

Directions to Gravity Hill #1
In Schellsburg, turn North on Route 96 at the traffic light. After driving for about 4 miles you will see a small bridge.Do not cross this bridge but make a left turn on Bethel Hollow Road / S.R. 4016. Drive for 6/10 of a mile and bear left at the "Y" in the road. Stay on the main road. After another 1.5 miles you come to an intersection that has a stop sign for oncoming traffic only. Bear right on this road and travel another 2/10 of a mile, looking for two sets of letters "GH" spray painted on the road. Pass the first "GH" and stop before you come up to the next "GH"
Directions to Gravity Hill #2
There is a second, unmarked Gravity Hill 3/10 of a mile past the second "GH". Look on your right for a telephone pole with the number "69". Stop beside this pole and defy gravity once again! There is an area just down the road where you can turn around.

Instructions
WARNING. You are on a public road! Obey all traffic signs and rules. Where there are hills there are blind spots. Always bring someone to watch for other traffic. Never try the hill when the road is wet and slippery or during inclement winter weather conditions.
Before setting out check your rear-view mirror for any upcoming traffic, put your car in neutral and let go off the brakes. Your car will roll backwards, uphill.

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After trying this natural phenomenon you may question it's causes. Well, we don't want to disappoint you, but whether it is called a Magnetic Hill, Gravity Hill, Mystery Hill or Electric Brae it is an optical illusion. It has nothing to do with magnetic fields, electricity or unknown forces working along mysterious lines.

©2003. Top of the Hill. Cars are already coming up!	©2003. Top of Gravity Hill. Getting instructions.
©2003. About halfway up Gravity Hill.	©2003. Bottle experiment. It rolls uphill!

Area History
The first house was built in 1846 by William Blackburn. Other early residents who built houses here were Jacob Coplin in 1848, Rueben Davis in 1850, Luther Davis in 1853, John W. Davis in 1856, Jacob Bowers in 1858, and John Wayde in 1859. Blacksmith Daniel Raffensparger bought Blackburn's house and most of the land on which the village sits in 1851, and also gave New Paris its name.
Jacob W. Miller and Isaiah Conley opened the first store in 1856, and was managed by Mrs. Eliza Richards. William Crissman started the first hotel, along with a store, in 1869.
New Paris was incorporated as a borough on September 7, 1882. The first school house was built just west of the borough in 1841. A new one was built north of town in 1859, and another in the borough in 1886. In 1919, this building was used as the first first high school, a two year high school, with two pupils - Gladys Davis and Frederick Blackburn. In 1881 the newspaper "New Paris Star" was begun, with C. S. Davis as its editor. The name changed to "New Paris Review" in 1890.

Credits

Map	Expedia.com. Maps and driving directions
Directions/Instructions	Compilation
Pictures	All pictures ©2003. Used with permission Western PA Region, Of The Antique Automobile Club Of America.
Area History	PA-Roots. New Paris Bedford County

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