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The Lake Shawnee Amusement Park is a defunct amusement park in Princeton, West Virginia, United States, located along Lake Shawnee. Opened in 1926, the park operated for 62 years before closing in 1988. [1][2] It received public attention for urban legends regarding the park being haunted due to accidental deaths supposedly caused by "cursed land".
Lake Shawnee Amusement Park. Princeton, West Virginia An amusement park with a haunted past, Lake Shawnee was built in the 1920s on land where an early settler's children were murdered in the late ...
Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park in Princeton, is a defunct amusement park located on the grounds of Indian burial sites. [ 144 ] West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, the scene of three deadly prison riots in 1973, 1979, and 1986, [ 145 ] is said to be haunted.
The abandoned Lake Shawnee Amusement Park The Lake Shawnee Amusement Park was founded in 1926 in West Virginia, and was a popular source of entertainment for the local coal mining population. The first known European settlers on that plot of land were the Clay family in late eighteenth century. [ 12 ]
A West Virginia amusement park with a haunted past, Lake Shawnee was built in the 1920s on land where an early settler's children were murdered in the late 1700s. In the 1960s, two young children ...
Lake Shawnee Amusement Park. Princeton, West Virginia. Once the property of the Shawnee Tribe, the amusement park that was built here has been the apex of unlucky. Opening in 1926 and closing in ...
1557242 [1] Lake Shawnee is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Lake Shawnee is located along U.S. Route 19, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Princeton. Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, abandoned in 1966, occupies a desecrated native burial ground which was the site of the 1783 Mitchell Clay settler farm.
Jul. 16—ROCK — The historical Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park has seen an influx of visitors and booked tours since the show The UnXplained with William Shatner aired on Netflix in June.