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| x Dyrehavsbakken |
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1583 |
Dyrehavsbakken ("The Deer Park Hill"), commonly referred to as Bakken ("The Hill"), is the world's oldest operating amusement park. It is located near Klampenborg (Gentofte municipality) but belongs under Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune, Denmark about 8...
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| x Wurstelprater |
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1766 |
The Wurstelprater is an amusement park and section of the Wiener Prater (a park) in the second district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt. The best-known attraction is the Riesenrad, a Ferris wheel. The park also features various rides, bumper cars, carousels...
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| x Belle Vue Zoo |
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Jun 1836 |
Belle Vue Zoological Gardens was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex and speedway stadium located in Belle Vue, West Gorton, Manchester, England. The Gardens opened in 1836 and developed into one of the most popular attractions in...
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| x Rocky Point Amusement Park | 1840 |
The Rocky Point Amusement Park was a highly popular landmark on the Narragansett Bay side of Warwick, Rhode Island. It operated from the late 1840s until its close in 1995. The following year, the park filed for bankruptcy.
Rocky Point was an idea...
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| x Tivoli Gardens |
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Aug 15, 1843 |
Tivoli (in English also called Tivoli Gardens) is a famous amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. The park opened on August 15, 1843 and is, with the exception of Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg, the oldest amusement park in...
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| x Lake Compounce |
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1846 |
Lake Compounce is an amusement park located in Bristol, Connecticut, United States and a part of the neighboring town of Southington, Connecticut; the lake itself lies completely in Southington. It is the oldest continuously operating amusement park...
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| x Hanayashiki Amusement Park |
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1853 |
Hanayashiki (浅草花やしき, Asakusa hanayashiki) is an amusement park in Taitō, Tokyo that has operated since 1853. It is operated by Hanayashiki Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. It is claimed to be the oldest amusement park in Japan.
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| x Cedar Point |
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1870 |
Cedar Point is a 364-acre (1.47 km²) amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, United States on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. It currently holds the world record for most roller coasters (17), one of which, Top Thrill Dragster, is the...
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| x Idlewild and Soak Zone |
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1878 |
Idlewild and Soak Zone, commonly known as Idlewild Park or simply Idlewild, is a family amusement park situated in the Laurel Highlands near Ligonier, Pennsylvania, United States, about 50 miles (80 km) east of Pittsburgh, along US Route 30. Founded...
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| x Chippewa Lake Park |
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1878 |
Chippewa Lake Park is a defunct amusement park once located in Chippewa Lake, Ohio, Medina County. It operated from 1878 through 1978, after the final owner, Continental Business Enterprises closed it due to lack of attendance. After the park's...
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| x Seabreeze Amusement Park |
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Aug 5, 1879 |
Seabreeze Amusement Park, known locally as Seabreeze, is an historic amusement park in Irondequoit, a suburb of Rochester, New York, United States.
Seabreeze is in northeast Irondequoit, where Irondequoit Bay empties into Lake Ontario. It opened on...
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| x Taiping Lake Gardens | 1880 |
Taiping Lake Gardens is the first public garden established during the British rule in Malaysia. This beautiful garden is located near Bukit Larut and within the town center and the Taiping Zoo.
The Taiping Lake Gardens was originally a mining site...
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| x Gröna Lund |
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1883 |
Tivoli Gröna Lund (lit. The Green Grove) is an amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located on the seaward side of the Djurgården island and is relatively small compared to other amusement parks, mainly due to its central location, which...
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| x Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom |
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1884 |
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an American amusement and water park located in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, just outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. The park features nine roller coasters,...
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| x Lagoon Amusement Park |
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1886 |
Lagoon is an amusement park in Farmington, Utah, United States located about seventeen miles (27 km) north of Salt Lake City. It is privately owned. It has eight roller coasters, three of which are unique; one of these being Colossus the Fire Dragon...
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| x Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom |
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1887 |
Geauga Lake's Wildwater Kingdom is a waterpark located in Aurora, Ohio, United States, originally founded in 1888 as Geauga Lake. Geauga Lake had operated primarily as an amusement park. On September 21, 2007, Cedar Fair, the park's owner, announced...
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| x Trimpers Rides |
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1887 |
Trimper's Rides is a historic amusement park located near the inlet at South First Street and the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland,in The United States. It was founded in 1893 as The Windsor Resort, and is over 100 years old. It is located at the...
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| x Elitch Gardens | May 1, 1890 |
Elitch Gardens was a family owned seasonal amusement park, theater, and botanic garden in the West Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, United States at 38th and Tennyson streets. For more than a century Elitch's was one of the most popular...
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| x Glen Echo Park |
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1891 |
Glen Echo Park, also known as Glen Echo Amusement Park and Glen Echo Park Historic District, is a public park and national historic district in Glen Echo, Montgomery County, Maryland. It is managed by the National Park Service as part of the George...
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| x Bay Beach Amusement Park |
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1892 |
Bay Beach Amusement Park (Bay Beach) is a small amusement park near the mouth of the Fox River's east bank as it flows into the Bay of Green Bay in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It features a few rides, but no roller coasters. From the 1900s to the end of...
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| x Conneaut Lake Park |
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1892 |
Conneaut Lake Park is a summer amusement resort, located in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, USA. It has long served as a regional tourist destination, and is loved by roller coaster enthusiasts for its classic Blue Streak coaster. Conneaut Lake is...
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| x Whalom Park |
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1893 |
Whalom Park was an amusement park located on Lake Whalom in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, that operated from 1893 to 2000.
Whalom Park was established in 1893 by the Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway as a traditional, English-style park of gardens...
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| x Lincoln Park | 1894 |
Lincoln Park was a park opened in 1894 by the Union Street Railway Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts, located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts on the border of Westport, Massachusetts on U.S. Highway 6.
Lincoln Park was originally built as a...
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| x Mountain Park | 1894 |
Mountain Park, located on Mount Tom in Holyoke, Massachusetts, was originally built as a trolley park by the Holyoke Street Railway Company. Trolley parks were built just outside of populated areas to encourage trolley usage on weekends. The Holyoke...
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| x Midway Park | 1894 |
Midway State Park, located in Maple Springs, New York, USA was established in 1898 by the Jamestown & Lake Erie Railway as a picnic ground. Today, it is recognized as the fifteenth-oldest continually operating amusement park in the United States,...
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| x Lakemont Park |
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1894 |
Lakemont Park, located in Altoona, Pennsylvania, houses the world's oldest-surviving roller coaster, the Leap-The-Dips. The park opened in 1894 (four years before Kennywood Park) as a trolley park and became an amusement park in the summer of 1899....
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| x Krug Park | 1895 |
Krug Park (currently known as Gallagher Park) was an amusement park located at 2936 North 52nd Street in the Benson neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska, USA at the turn of the 20th century. In 1930, Krug Park was the site of the worst roller coaster...
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| x Pleasure Beach Blackpool |
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1896 |
Pleasure Beach Blackpool is a family owned amusement park situated along the Fylde coast in Blackpool, England. It is the most visited theme park in the United Kingdom, exceeding more than six million visitors a year. The park is a privately funded...
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| x Waldameer Park |
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1896 |
Waldameer Park and Water World is an amusement park in Erie, Pennsylvania located at the base of Presque Isle. Waldameer is the fourth oldest amusement park in Pennsylvania, and the tenth oldest in the United States. The park is admission-free, with...
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| x Barry Island Pleasure Park |
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1897 |
Barry Island Pleasure Park is an amusement park situated on the coast at Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 10 miles south west of the capital city Cardiff, Wales. The park opens annually at weekends from Easter onwards and daily during...
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| x Kennywood |
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1898 |
Kennywood is an amusement park located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. The park first opened in 1898 as a trolley park for the Monongahela Street Railway Company. Along with Rye Playland Park, it is one of only two amusement parks...
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| x Palisades Amusement Park |
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1898 |
Palisades Amusement Park was an amusement park located in Bergen County, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York City. It was atop the New Jersey Palisades and was partially in Cliffside Park and partly in Fort Lee. It was in operation...
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| x Beech Bend Park | 1898 |
Beech Bend Park is an amusement park, campground and automobile race track located in Warren County, Kentucky, United States, not far from the city of Bowling Green.
The park takes its name from a bend in Barren River where stands of beech trees are...
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| x Boblo Island Amusement Park |
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1898 |
Boblo Island Amusement Park began operation in 1898 and closed on September 30, 1993.
The park was located on Bois Blanc Island, which is part of the Province of Ontario, Canada. It lies just above the mouth of the Detroit River. The people of...
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| x Canobie Lake Park |
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1902 |
Canobie Lake Park is an amusement park located in Salem, New Hampshire, about 30 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts.
Canobie Lake Park opened on August 23, 1902, as a trolley park for the Massachusetts Northeast Street Railway Company. The...
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| x Luna Park, Coney Island |
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1903 |
Luna Park was an amusement park at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City from 1903 to 1944.
The park's creators, Frederic Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy, created a wildly successful ride called "A Trip To The Moon", a part of the Pan-American...
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| x Camden Park | 1903 |
Camden Park is an amusement park located in Huntington, West Virginia. The park first opened in 1903 as a picnic spot along the Camden Interstate Railway street car line between Huntington and Ashland, Kentucky. It is one of the last traditional...
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| x Idora Park |
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1904 |
Idora Park was a 17.5-acre (71,000 m) Victorian era trolley park in north Oakland, California constructed in 1904 on the site of an informal park setting called Ayala Park on the north banks of Temescal Creek. Idora Park was leased by the Ingersoll...
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| x White City |
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1905 |
For other parks of the same name, see White City (amusement park)
White City was an amusement park located in Shrewsbury, a suburb of Worcester, Massachusetts.
White City was founded by local businessman Horace H. Bigelow. The park opened on June 18...
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| x Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk |
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1907 |
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is an oceanfront amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. Founded in 1907 and operated by the family-owned Santa Cruz Seaside Company since 1915, it is California's oldest surviving amusement park and one of two...
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| x Clementon Amusement Park | 1907 |
Clementon Park and Splash World is a small amusement park located in Clementon, New Jersey in Camden County, New Jersey, United States right on Clementon Lake and close to the Pine Valley Golf Club. Also known as Clementon Lake Park, it is one of...
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| x DelGrosso's Amusement Park |
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1907 |
DelGrosso's Amusement Park is a family-oriented amusement park located in Tipton, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Altoona, Pennsylvania. The park was purchased by the DelGrosso family in 1946 and was named "Bland's Park" until 2000. In 2000, the...
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| x Hersheypark |
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Apr 24, 1907 |
Hersheypark is an amusement park located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, near the Hershey Chocolate Factory.
Hersheypark was opened in 1907 as a leisure park for the employees of the Hershey Chocolate Company, an American confectionery company. Later, the...
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| x Quassy Amusement Park |
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1908 |
Quassy Amusement Park is a traditional family park in Middlebury, Connecticut, USA. While the park is mostly made up of dry rides, there is the Saturation Station interactive family water area connected to the park. Swimming in Lake Quassapaug is...
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| x Lakeside Amusement Park |
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May 30, 1908 |
Lakeside Amusement Park is a family owned amusement park in Lakeside, Colorado near Denver. Originally named White City, it was opened in 1908 as a popular amusement resort adjacent to Lake Rhoda spearheaded by prominent Denver brewer Adolph Zang....
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| x Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach |
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1909 |
Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach is a historic free entry pleasure park located in the seaside resort town of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on the English east coast. The park first opened in 1909 and has been operating ever since.
The largest and most...
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| x The Spanish City | 1910 |
The Spanish City was a permanent seaside fairground in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in the North East of England. It was demolished for redevelopment (including a new school) in the late 1990s. The centrepiece of the Spanish City was the Dome, which...
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| x Luna Park, Melbourne |
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1912 |
For other amusement parks of the same name, see Luna Park; for other uses of the phrase, see Luna Park (disambiguation)
Melbourne's Luna Park is a historic amusement park located on the foreshore of Port Phillip Bay in St Kilda, Victoria, which is...
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| x Peony Park | 1919 |
Peony Park was an amusement park located at North 78th and Cass Streets in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1920, over the next seventy-five years the 35-acre (140,000 m) park included a 4.5-acre (18,000 m) pool, beach and waterslide, a ballroom that...
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| x Dreamland Margate |
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1920 |
Dreamland Margate was an amusement park in the seaside resort town of Margate, Kent, England. There are plans to attempt to reopen the park.
Dreamland opened in 1920 and became a popular attraction with visitors to Margate. The park has the UK's...
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| x Lakeside Amusement Park | 1920 |
Lakeside Amusement Park was an amusement park located in Salem, Virginia at the intersection of U.S. Route 460 (East Main Street in Salem) and State Route 419 (Electric Road in Salem). The park was named after a very large (300 feet long, 125 feet...
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| x Tiny Town | 1920 |
Tiny Town is a 15 in (381 mm) gauge miniature railway set in a miniature village of over 100 1/6 scale buildings in Morrison, Colorado.
George Turner, owner of Denver business Turner Moving & Storage and a friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, began building...
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| x Wicksteed Park | 1921 |
Wicksteed Park is an amusement park in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. The park opened in 1921. It is believed to be the 2nd oldest amusement park in England next to Blackgang Chine on the Isle of Wight. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) from the...
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| x Liseberg |
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1923 |
Liseberg is an amusement park located in Gothenburg, Sweden, the park opened in 1923. Liesberg is the largest and one of the most visited amusement parks Scandinavia, attracting around 3 million visitors annually. Among the noteworthy attractions is...
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| x New World Amusement Park |
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1923 |
The New World Amusement Park (simplified Chinese: 新世界) was the first of three amusement parks, along with Great World (estd. early 1930s) and Gay World (estd. 1936), that wooed Malaya and Singapore night crowds from the 1920s to the 1960s. New World...
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| x Fairyland Park | 1923 |
Fairyland Park was an amusement park, located at 7501 Prospect Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. The park operated from 1923 to 1977, at which time it was closed due to lack of attendance to the park and storm damage in late 1977.
The park was bought...
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| x Stricker's Grove |
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1924 |
Stricker's Grove is a small family owned amusement park located in Ross, Ohio, USA. Unlike other amusement parks, Stricker's Grove is closed to the public for most of the year. Instead, it is rented out for private functions, such as weddings. The...
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| x Springlake Amusement Park | 1924 |
Springlake Amusement Park was an amusement park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was originally established in 1922 (some sources say 1924) by Roy Staton about six years after his spring-fed pond at NE 40th and Eastern (now Martin Luther King Blvd)...
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| x Lake Winnepesaukah | 1925 |
Lake Winnepesaukah (nicknamed Lake Winnie) is an amusement park located on Lakeview Drive in Lakeview, Georgia (mailing address Rossville, Georgia) near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Winnepesaukah means "beautiful water." Carl and Minette Dixon opened the...
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| x Excelsior Amusement Park |
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1925 |
Excelsior Amusement Park was an amusement park located on the shore of Lake Minnetonka in Excelsior, Minnesota. The park operated from 1925 to 1973. The park was a popular destination for annual company picnics and as a day trip for many from the...
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