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Silver Beach Amusement Park. Coordinates: 42.1125°N 86.4875°W. Silver Beach County Park is a park located in St. Joseph, Michigan at the mouth of the St. Joseph River. [1] It was formerly Silver Beach Amusement Park, an amusement park, which operated between 1891 and 1971.
It was a private park. Silver Beach Amusement Park: St. Joseph: 1891–1971 Six Flags AutoWorld: Flint: 1984–1994 Tashmoo Park: Algonac: 1897–1951 Toledo Beach Amusement Park: La Salle Township: 1907–1962 Demolished, now the Toledo Beach Marina Wenona Beach Amusement Park: Bangor Township: 1887-1964 Walled Lake Park Walled Lake: 1919–1968
In 1891 the Silver Beach Amusement Park was opened on land between the lake and mouth of the river in St. Joseph. Logan Drake and Louis Wallace bought the land from the Pere Marquette Railroad and added cottages to lure tourists to the lake front. As the park aged and grew in popularity, the pair added many attractions, including concessions ...
June 24, 1941. (1941-06-24) (aged 68–69) Houston, Texas, U.S. Occupation. Roller coaster engineer. John A. Miller (born August John Mueller; 1872 – June 24, 1941) was an American roller coaster designer and builder, inventor, and businessman. Miller patented over 100 key roller coaster components, [1] and is widely considered the "father of ...
W. Wenona Beach Amusement Park. Categories: Amusement parks in Michigan. Defunct amusement parks in the United States by state or territory. History of Michigan.
Michigan's Adventure is a 250-acre (1.0 km 2) amusement park in Muskegon County, Michigan, about halfway between Muskegon and Whitehall. It is the largest amusement park in the state and has been owned and operated by Cedar Fair since 2001. As of 2024, Michigan's Adventure has over 60 rides, slides and attractions, more than any other park in ...
26-70760. GNIS feature ID. 0636601 [3] Website. scsmi .net. St. Clair Shores is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, St. Clair Shores is located roughly 14 miles (22.5 km) northeast of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 58,874.
He became the first person to fly across Lake Michigan when he completed a 64 mile over-the-water flight from Silver Beach Amusement Park in St. Joseph, Michigan, to Chicago on July 1, 1913. In 1914, he flew to Milwaukee, Wisconsin , with the Wisconsin Aero Club and, in the summer of 1915, he was hired by the Wisconsin Conservation Commission ...