Lost Wonderland: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Boston's Million Dollar Amusement Park

by Stephen R. Wilk

Book Overview

If you take Boston's Blue Line to its northern end, you'll reach the Wonderland stop. Few realize that a twenty-three-acre amusement park once sat nearby--the largest in New England, and grander than any of the Coney Island parks that inspired it. Opened in Revere on Memorial Day in 1906 to great fanfare, Wonderland offered hundreds of thousands of visitors recreation by the sea, just a short distance from downtown Boston.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625345585
• ISBN13: 9781625345585
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bright Leaf
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher