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The Southwest Ohio Amusement Park Historical Society, Inc. was founded in 2001 and was organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501-c-3, of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

The purpose of this Society, as set forth in its Constitution & By-Laws, is:

1) To collect, preserve and own such records, books, manuscripts, charts, maps, building artifacts, ride artifacts, and other material as may be deemed worthy of a place in its archives, together with articles of an historic or antiquarian value to be kept in its cabinet or other designated location, and to have and hold, buy and sell, such property, real and personal, as may be necessary to carry out the objects of the creation of said corporation;

2) In furtherance of these ends, the more specific purposes of this Society shall be the preservation and utilization of papers, documents, pictures, objects, and other data and material, both public and private, of historical significance particularly to any past or present amusement park located in the Southwest Ohio region and to the surrounding region;

3) To endeavor to secure appropriate marking of buildings, foundations of buildings and other places of historic interest;

4) To gather into tangible form and to preserve historical data of amusement parks in Southwestern Ohio; to collect and preserve diaries, notebooks, letters or other writings pertaining to the early developments of such amusement parks, to preserve in permanent form oral tradition of historic value when necessary or appropriate;

5) To select and preserve such writings, publications and physical objects that will constitute an appropriate historical record of outstanding events of the history of amusement parks in Southwest Ohio;

6) To secure adequate permanent housing for its collections; to make available for study an inspection by the public its collections of historical materials; and to incubate in the public an appreciation of the value to be derived from a study of such materials;

7) To assist in the presentation of historical pageants, celebrations and observances, and to cooperate with local, city, county, state and national historical organizations and groups in the promotion of common purposes; and

8) To preserve and administer historic buildings, sites and rides associated with past and present amusement parks in Southwest Ohio; and to provide interpretation and historical education to the visitors of any property containing materials owned by the Society or buildings or sites owned or controlled by the Society.

Your support for this site is greatly appreciated. Donations to the SOAPHS may be tax deductible depending on your particular tax situation. Please be assured that 100% of your generous donation IS used to support the organization. We do not actively solicit for donations, do any type of mailing or have sustained any administrative costs except to host our web sites and maintain ownership of domain names. The SOAPHS is a non-profit 501 (3) (c) corporation founded in 2001 and is not associated with any amusement park or vendor company listed on this site.

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Photo credits: Top: soaphs file, T.Rhein, park archive.