Eldridge Park

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Eldridge Park
Location	Elmira, New York, United States
Area	15 acres (6.1 ha)
Rides	1 total
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Eldridge Park, located in Elmira, New York, was a famous amusement park around the turn of the 20th century. Covering roughly 15 acres, it was dedicated to the memory of a local physician and was in common usage late into the 20th century.

Early in the 21st century, another local physician and friends decided to resurrect the central element of Eldridge Park [1], the Carousel[2]. Their efforts have been largely successful and they have moved on to further enhancements and improvements of the park.

In the early 1960's, the park included the now-famous carousel, an outdoor stage, an extensive network of picnic areas, a wooden roller coaster, haunted house, shooting gallery, bumper cars, several rides for young and old alike, The Dragon (a boat ride on the park's lake), eateries, a miniature golf course, and a small-gage train that ran through the park, in addition to several other rides and attractions.

Eldridge Lake has for generations had the folklore of being "bottomless". That is, that there is an underground water tunnel that leads at least 20 miles to the north, to Seneca Lake, one of the nearby Finger Lakes in Upstate New York. How this rumor started is unknown, but for generations the folklore has lived on.