Fourteen Mile Creek
2021-01-02 - Charlestown, IN - Photo by Graham Waggener
Fourteen Mile Creek, as seen from the Portersville Bridge that connects Charlestown State Park with the old Rose Island Amusement Park, just across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY.
According to the Wikipedia entry on Rose Island, "In 1923 David Rose purchased the property, added an amusement park, hotel, and swimming pool, spending $250,000 in the process, and renamed it Rose Island. It included a wooden coaster, termed a racing derby and named the Devil's Backbone in honor of the rock formation, and a Ferris wheel. There were wolves in a pen, monkeys in a cage, and a black bear named Teddy Roosevelt." Comments | Permalink
2021-01-02 - Charlestown, IN - Photo by Graham Waggener
Fourteen Mile Creek, as seen from the Portersville Bridge that connects Charlestown State Park with the old Rose Island Amusement Park, just across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY.
According to the Wikipedia entry on Rose Island, "In 1923 David Rose purchased the property, added an amusement park, hotel, and swimming pool, spending $250,000 in the process, and renamed it Rose Island. It included a wooden coaster, termed a racing derby and named the Devil's Backbone in honor of the rock formation, and a Ferris wheel. There were wolves in a pen, monkeys in a cage, and a black bear named Teddy Roosevelt." Comments | Permalink