six flags over ballast point
TBHC95 years ago…
October, 9, 1911 – Two local investors lease the Ballast Point Park area with plans to transform it into an amusement park, complete with an Atlantic City-style boardwalk. The duo planned on spending $20,000 dollars (almost $400,000 in today’s dollars) on the improvements and on sprucing up the pavilion (built in the early 1890s). Most of the plans fell through, and the pavilion would be badly damaged during a hurricane ten years later. The pavilion’s companion gazebo still stands today at the park.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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