Crescent Park

Crescent Park was an amusement park in Riverside, East Providence, Rhode Island that was operational from 1886 to 1979. Called the "Coney Island of the East," the nearly 50 acre park overlooked the Narragansett Bay on the west and Bullock Cove on the southeast. The park changed hands several times during its run, specifically in the 1960s and 1970s, before closing after the 1977 season due to financial problems, structural neglect, and local pollution of the bay. While the majority of the land has since been developed into a housing complex, the Crescent Park Looff Carousel, designed and built by Charles I.D. Looff, has been preserved and continues to run.

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