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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 ...
Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States.Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and was later converted into a county park named Calico Ghost Town.
Photo from the Knott's Berry Farm Collection, Accession #2006/8. Date: 22 June 2010, 09:36: Source: Walter Knott at Independence Hall dedication, Buena Park: Author: Orange County Archives from Orange County, California, United States of America
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 ...
Pages in category "School buildings completed in 1880" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
This category is for school buildings which were completed in the decade 1880s. 1830s; ... School buildings completed in 1880 (15 P) School buildings completed in ...