Puritas Springs Park
Puritas Springs Park has closed (last season: 1958). This page covers its history and the rides it had.
- Location
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Opened
- 1898
- Closed
- 1958
- Rides listed
- 0
Rides it had
No rides listed for Puritas Springs Park yet.
Puritas Springs Park closed in 1958, when it was sold to a land developer. A fire the next spring caused extensive damage, the park was razed, and housing and a shopping center were built on the site.
Sources
- case.edu/ech/articles/p/puritas-springs-park (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: 80-acre park on the north side of Puritas Rd. in southwest Cleveland overlooking the Rocky River valley; built in 1898 by John E. Gooding; famous Cyclone coaster; sold by James Gooding in 1958 to a land-development company; fire the following spring, then razed; housing development and shopping center on the site.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritas_Springs_Park (Cleveland, overlooking the Rocky River valley; railway service to the gates from June 10, 1900; Gooding owned it by 1915; Cyclone designed by John Miller, opened June 10, 1928, parts survived the fire; closed 1958 and sold to residential developers; fire less than a year later; residential development now on the site.)
- rcdb.com/5319.htm (RCDB park page: Puritas Springs, Cleveland, Ohio, defunct; two defunct coasters, Cyclone and Comet Jr. (both wood); no years given.)
- rcdb.com/2077.htm (RCDB: Cyclone at Puritas Springs, removed; designer John A. Miller.)
- clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/261 (Puritas Ave and Grayson Rd, beside a ravine over the Rocky River valley; Gooding installed a carousel there in 1898 and leased the whole park by 1901; closed in 1958; land converted to residential development.)