LOST AMUSEMENT PARKS

INDIANA - AMUSEMENT PARKS

• Airdrome Park - Greensburg, IN - (1911 - ? )
• Anderson Park - Anderson, IN - (1920s) - (Nothing Known)
• Boyd Park – Peru, IN – (1902 or 1905? -1909) [Owners from Chicago brought in risque shows that shocked locals, who passed Blue Laws]
• Broad Ripple Park – Indianapolis, IN –  MAP (1907 - early 1930s )
• Casino Park – Terre Haute, IN -  (Nothing Known)
• Cook’s Electric Park / Pleasure Park  – Evansville, IN  - (1890 or 1904? - mid 1920s) - MAP
• Electric Park - Muncie, IN - (1907 - ?)
• Elm Hurst Park – Connersuilt, IN - (Nothing Known)
• Fairview Park – Indianapolis, IN - (1903 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Glenwood Park - New Albany, IN - (1904 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Grant Park – Marion, IN  -  (Nothing Known)
• Hammond Beach Boardwalk – Hammond, IN – (1927 - ?) [Victim of the economic Depression]
• Highland Amusement Park - Muncie, IN - (Nothing known)
• Illini Beach – Ottawa, IN  -  (Nothing Known)
• Indiana Beach  (was Ideal Beach Resort) – Shafer Lake / Monticello, IN – (1926 - Present)
• Lakeview Park / Fairland Park – Terre Haute, IN  -  (1903 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Lakewood Park – Vincennes, IN  -  (Nothing Known)
• Lakewoods Park, Gary, IN  -  (1911 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Lakewood Park / Fairland Park - Terre Haute, IN (1905 - 1909)
• Long Beach Park - Rochester, IN - (1921 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Luna Park – Indianapolis, IN  - (1906? - ? )(Nothing Known)
• Merryland Park – Whiting, IN   (Nothing Known)
• Mounds Park – Anderson, IN  - (1897 or 1906? - 1922) [Dwindling attendance - Historic Society bought property and deeded it to the State]
• Oak Summit Park – Evansville, IN  -  (1904? - ? )(Nothing Known)
• Playland Park / Springbrook Park – South Bend, IN – (1925 - 1967)
• Point Amusement Park - Gary, IN - (1940 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• Pratherola Park / Goldtbart Park – Marion, IN  -  (Nothing Known)
• Riverside Amusement Park – Indianapolis, IN –  (1903 or 1904 – 1970)  MAP [Combination of integration in the park & competition from theme parks]
• Riverside Park – Eaton, IN – (Nothing Known)
• Riverview Park – Ft Wayne, IN  - (1922 - ? ) (Nothing Known) 
• Robison Park / Swift Park  – Fort Wayne, IN – (1896 or 1904? -1919)   MAP [Popularity of automobile doomed park]
• Rose Island Amusement Park – Charlestown, IN – (1923-1936) [Park badly damaged in a 1937 flood]
• South Shore Park – Hammond, IN - (Nothing Known) 
• Springbrook Park / Playland  – So. Bend, IN  - (1909 - 1961)
• Spring Fountain Park - Warsaw, IN - (1886 - 1894)
• Trier’s Park / West Swinney Park – Fort Wayne, IN – (1919 - 1953) [Series of arson fires destroyed the park & city turned it into a traditional park]
• Trout Park – Elgin, IN - (1909 - 1921) [City bought land for passive city park]
• Washington Park – Michigan City, IN – (1900 or 1905? - 1908 ) (Nothing Known)
• Washington Park - Michigan City, IN - (1940 - 1962 ) (Nothing Known)
• West Side Park – Muncie, IN  -  (1905 - ? ) (Nothing Known)
• White City – Indianapolis, IN – (1906 - 1908) [Couldn't compete with nearby Wonderland and Riverside Parks - each had similar attractions] 
• White City – Lafayette, IN  -  (Nothing Known)
• Winona Lake Park – Warsaw, IN   - (1903 - ? )
• Wonderland Amusement Park – Indianapolis, IN – (1906 - 1911) [Destroyed by a fire]