Groups in Ohio hope to raise $6 million to bring back 100-year-old amusement park carousel

Plans announced to bring back old Ohio carousel

CLEVELAND — History and preservation groups say a century-old carousel that outlived an Ohio amusement park will go round again if they can come up with the money.

Cleveland’s Western Reserve Historical Society and two other groups on Wednesday announced an effort to raise $6 million to restore and maintain the carousel from Euclid Beach Park, which closed in 1969. Plans call for installing the attraction within the historical society building and have it operating in 2013.

The carousel’s horses and other parts are currently in storage.

Some of its fans had been hoping to put the carousel back where the park once stood, on Lake Erie on Cleveland’s east side. But area Councilman Michael Polensek says the money could not be raised to buy the site.