Nearly Nothing's Left of Spring Grove's Once-Thriving Amusement Park (Cincinnati: live, train)

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Nearly Nothing's Left of Spring Grove's Once-Thriving Amusement Park | Cincinnati Refined

Even if I were standing at the corner of W. Mitchell and Spring Grove Avenues during peak amusement park season—mid-summer, just as the sun’s beginning to set—it would still seem pretty desolate. A freight train is rumbling by and its wheels are sending a piercing scream that’s easily outperforming the black smoke spewing trucks on the road. There’s no cotton candy to be found and the only chance for ice cream is at the fast food joint on the corner. When the sun finally does go down, even on this dreary Winter Saturday, it will fall on car dealerships and industrial vistas rather than behind the wooden supports of roller coasters or the glimmering water of a lake.

Nearly a century ago, this corner of Cincinnati was far different. This was where an amusement park once stood.

I've lived in Cincinnati for almost 70 years and never knew about this