On Easter, Glenn Gray and the Casa Loma Band opened the Starlight Ballroom. The casino was expanded with a dance floor. The coaster was torn down in 1927 to make room for the Wildcat, a wooden coaster designed by Schmeck and built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. In 1914, Lake Compounce opened the Green Dragon, the park's first electric-powered roller coaster. The Carousel is now included in the National Register of Historic Places. Shortly after, Lake Compounce purchased the Lake Compounce Carousel for $10,000, opening it on Memorial Day, 1911.

Later that year, the Bristol and Plainville Tramway Company constructed the Southington and Compounce trolley line. In 1895, a casino was built on the property, which was the first permanent building at the site. The two men petitioned local legislators that their residences be ceded from the town of Southington to the town of Bristol. In 1851, a California Gold Rush 49er named Isaac Pierce joined Norton to establish a firm. The park saw success as a picnic park through the post- American Civil War era. His park had public swimming and rowing on the lake, a gazebo for lakeside band concerts and several rides. The experiment brought large crowds, which inspired Norton to open an amusement park. The park's history goes back to 1846, when Gad Norton hired a scientist to perform an experiment using explosives, which failed. A local myth suggests that Chief Compound drowned while trying to cross the lake in the brass tea kettle. The property was left to the settlers in exchange for a small amount of money and miscellaneous items, including a large brass tea kettle. On December 3, 1684, his tribe signed a deed that left Compound's Lake to a group of white settlers, including John Norton, who had migrated to central Connecticut from Massachusetts. The lake's name is derived from Chief John Compound, a Mattatuck/ Tunxis Native American. In addition to the 14th oldest wooden roller coaster in the world, Wildcat, its newer wooden roller coaster, Boulder Dash, has won the Golden Ticket Award for the #1 Wooden Coaster in the World for five consecutive years.

The park was acquired from Kennywood Entertainment Company by Palace Entertainment, the U.S. It spans 332 acres (134 ha), which includes a beach and a water park called Crocodile Cove included in the price of admission. Opened in 1846, it is the oldest continuously operating amusement park in the United States. Lake Compounce is an amusement park located in Bristol and Southington, Connecticut.

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