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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.
A museum collection of miniature homes and furnishings, featuring the world's smallest working television set. In 1996, the attraction moved to La Palma Avenue at the exit of Knott's parking as museum and doll house furnishing store. The museum closed in 1997 and was auctioned off. [4] The Mott's Miniature mail-order business is thriving. [5]
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 ...
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English: Dr. Robert Schuller and Walter Knott, 1970 Photo taken in Independence Hall at Knott's Berry Farm. There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. All future uses of this photo should include the courtesy line, "Photo courtesy Orange County Archives." Comments are welcome after reading our Comment Policy.
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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 ...
And, Walter Knott’s objective in creating Ghost Town was to create an Old West town of the 1800s, not the 1940s. [15] [16] The engines, which were coal-burners, originally had diamond stacks (to catch the coal cinders), a wooden pilot, and a sand dome that was a bit more ornate (see accompanying photos).