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Lake Compounce — America's Oldest Amusement Park

Bristol, CT

Operating since 1846, Lake Compounce is widely recognized as the oldest continuously operating amusement park in the United States. Its mix of modern rides and surviving historic amusement-park traditions makes it a useful OddWay stop beyond the normal theme-park angle.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Roadside America

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