Ole Bull State Park occupies 132 acres in the Kettle Creek Valley within Susquehannock State Forest, in Pennsylvania’s former Black Forest. It is named for Norwegian violinist Ole Borneman Bull, who bought 120,000 acres here in 1852 and tried to found the colony of New Norway, with planned communities and an unfinished “castle,” before the effort collapsed because settlers were unprepared to clear the dense forest. The valley later joined the lumber boom of the 1880s and 1890s, then passed into public ownership after the timber era. Opened in 1925, the park later gained many Great Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps facilities and now links recreation with the site of Bull’s failed settlement.