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August 27, 1979. Designated NHL. February 27, 1987. The Flying Horses Carousel is the oldest operating platform carousel in the United States. [2] Located in the historic resort community of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard, the carousel was apparently first located in New York City before being moved to the island in the 1880s.
The Cass County Dentzel Carousel, formerly known as the Spencer Park Dentzel Carousel and also known as the Riverside Park Dentzel Carousel or Logansport Carousel, is a historic carousel in Riverside Park of Logansport, Indiana. Built by the Dentzel Carousel Company, probably by 1900, it is one of the company's oldest surviving menagerie -style ...
February 24, 1987 [2] Santa Cruz Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster On The Beach Boardwalk is a National Historic Landmark composed of two parts, a Looff carousel and the Giant Dipper wooden roller coaster, at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California, United States. They are among the oldest surviving beachfront amusement park ...
41°14′54″N 72°54′12″W / 41.24833°N 72.90333°W / 41.24833; -72.90333 (Lighthouse Point Carousel) New Haven, Connecticut. All Hallows Guild Carousel. 1890. 38°55′43″N 77°04′15″W / 38.92861°N 77.07083°W / 38.92861; -77.07083 (Traveling Carousel) Cathedral Heights, Northwest, Washington, D.C ...
The Pullen Park Carousel is a classic wood carousel at Pullen Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. Built in 1900, the carousel contains 52 hand-carved basswood animals, 2 chariots (or sleighs), 18 large gilded mirrors and canvas panels and a Wurlitzer #125 band organ made in 1924 by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company of North Tonawanda, New York .
History. Glen Echo Park carousel, Montgomery County, Maryland. Glen Echo Park carousel building. Its founder, Gustav Dentzel, had immigrated to the United States in 1860, from Germany. Having carved carousels for his father before immigrating he opened a cabinet making shop on Germantown Ave. in Philadelphia. He soon tired of the cabinet making ...
October 29, 1985 [1] Jane's Carousel (formerly Idora Park Merry-Go-Round) is a carved wooden 48-horse carousel in Brooklyn, New York City, built in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC) for the Idora Park amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio. [2] It was carved by John Zalar and Frank Carretta, each of whom is attributed with carvings on ...
C. Cafesjian's Carousel. Carousel at Glen Echo Park. A Carousel for Missoula. Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 61. Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 71.