In the United States, trolley parks, which started in the 19th century, were picnic and recreation areas along or at the ends of streetcar lines in most...
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Canobie Lake Park is an amusement park in Salem, New Hampshire, located about 31 miles (50 km) north of Boston. It was founded as a trolley park on the shore...
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Lakemont Park is an amusement park located in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The park opened in 1894 as a trolley park and became an amusement park in 1899. It...
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electric trolley lines were developed in many large American cities. Companies that established the trolley lines also developed trolley parks as destinations...
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Olentangy Park was a trolley park, a type of amusement park, in Clintonville, Columbus, Ohio, operating from 1880 to 1937. Olentangy Park was located...
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the U.S. East Coast. Dorney Park is one of only fourteen trolley parks still operating in the United States. Dorney Park traces its history to 1860, when...
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Quassy Amusement Park is an amusement and waterpark in Middlebury, Connecticut, and is one of only 11 trolley parks still operating in the United States...
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Rocky Glen Park was a trolley park located near Moosic, Pennsylvania. Founded by Arthur Frothingham in 1886 as picnic grounds, it was transformed into...
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park operated on a 40 acre-site south of Queen Street East to Lake Ontario between Leuty and MacLean avenues It succeeded two east end trolley parks,...
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conceived the park as a trolley park to attract evening and weekend riders. It was originally known as "The Park on the Palisades". In 1908, the trolley company...
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