LeSourdsville Park Declared Bicentennial Park in 1976 Celebrations
LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park in Butler County is named an Official Bicentennial Park as part of the Nation's 200th Anniversary Celebration. The 1976 season features a Liberty Bell replica, Bicentennial Day on May 29, and a Spirit of America Music Festival along with ethnic events such as German, Italian, Irish and Over-the-Rhine Days. The park’s history traces to 1791 land purchase and canal development, with the lake serving as an ice source and later a major amusement venue.
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LeSourdsville Lake
Butler County
LeSourdsville
Butler County Commission
U.S
Clarkson Freeman
Benjamin LeSourd
Cincinnati
LeSourdsvile Lake
Don Carey
Howad Berni
Marriott
Great America
San Francisco
Chicago
Washington
Marriott Corp
Holiday Inn
McDonald's
J. W. Marriott Jr
Disney World
Disneyland
Ohio campsites fill for Memorial Day weekend reservation scramble
The Associated Press reports that forty seven Ohio state park campgrounds face a busy Memorial Day as thousands seek sites. Two reservation streams exist: official advance bookings through the Department of Natural Resources and informal self reservations by campers, with sites held by short or long term stays. Northeast Mosquito Creek adds a new 234-site campground on Mosquito Reservoir. Pike Lake State Park in Pike County offers 150 Class B sites near a lake. Blue Rock State Park in Muskingum County provides nature programs and rent a camp options.
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Ohio State Park
Ohio
Epartment of Natural Resources
Mosquito Creek State Park
Mosquito Reservoir
Marriott leaps into amusement business story
Santa Clara Calif AP In 1927 J Williard Marriott opened a nine stool root beer stand in Washington DC funded largely by high net worth backing. Marriott s Hot Shoppe grew into a three quarter billion dollar worldwide conglomerate of hotels and resorts restaurants airline caterers and cruise ships
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Santa Clara
Calif
J. Williard Marriott
Washington, D.C
Marriott
Ohio lottery to use scanners for instant game results
Ohio plans an eight to 12 week instant game run that could yield six million winners. Executive director Gerald Patronite says optical scanning will read magnetic tape to validate all winning tickets, processing up to about 24 000 tickets per hour. Sale of up to 55 million tickets begins June 15 with an expected weekly sale of six to eight million.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Gerald J. Patronite
Patronite
Ohio Lottery Commission
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Bill Barr
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Hamilton
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Best
Germantown
E. Warren
Sourdsville
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