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Walter Marvin Knott (December 11, 1889 – December 3, 1981) was an American farmer and businessman who founded the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in Buena Park, California, introduced and mass-marketed the boysenberry, and founded the Knott's Berry Farm food brand.
Walter Knott also purchased an 1879 school house at Beloit, Kansas, for $253.50. He had it taken apart and shipped to the theme park in 1951. This was the Beloit School House that closed in 1947. The Homestead Act of 1862 was signed by President Abraham Lincoln, many families moved west and to Kansas for the chance of free land. To homestead a ...
As time went on, more shops and interactive displays were opened to entertain patrons waiting for a seat [6] at the Chicken Dinner Restaurant. [7] The Berry Market expanded South from Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant along Grand Avenue with the addition of wishing wells, rock gardens [8] with miniature waterfalls, water wheels and a grindstone "Down by the Old Mill Stream", [9] near a ...
Bud Hurlbut (left) and Walter Knott (right) riding the Timber Mountain Log Ride, Knott's Berry Farm, 1969. Wendell "Bud" Hurlbut (June 13, 1918 – January 5, 2011) [1] was a designer, builder, entrepreneur, and one of the first creators of theme parks in the United States.
The District No. 2 Schoolhouse, also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse, is a historic one-room schoolhouse at 2851 Wakefield Road in Wakefield, New Hampshire.Built in 1858–59, it was at the time one of the finest district schoolhouses in rural New Hampshire.
The North Weare Schoolhouse is a historic school building on Old Concord State Road in northern Weare, New Hampshire. Built about 1856, it is a stylistically distinctive vernacular mixing of Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styling. It is the most architecturally distinctive of Weare's surviving 19th-century schoolhouses.
Rob Perez, director and producer of the show, "Yours Cruelly, Elvira XXperience," stands next to Elvira's Macabre Mobile 1959 T-Bird that will be part of the show inside the Walter Knott Theater ...
The Grasmere Schoolhouse No. 9 and Town Hall is located on the north side of Center Street, a short way east of Grasmere's main intersection with Henry Bridge Road. It is a 2½-story wood-frame structure, with a clipped gable roof and clapboarded exterior.