Joy Mill

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Joy Mill
Type Funhouse
Park Section Midway
Built 1913
Opened Early 1920s
Closed 1937 (park closure)
Frame Wood
Number of Stories 2

The Joy Mill was a funhouse attraction originally built as The Fun House at Olentangy Park and enlarged and renamed in the early 1920s.[1][2] It was sometimes referred to as "The Fun House and Joy Mill".[3] It was built across from Kelso Road, on the location of the first Ye Olde Mill ride[4][5][6] that burned down in 1911.

The attraction was one of the many sold off by the Cleveland Wrecking Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1938 after the park closed the year prior.[7][8]

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References

  1. "New Amusement Devices." The Columbus Dispatch, April 30, 1922. Page 8.
  2. Barrett, Richard E. 1984. "Olentangy Park: Four Decades of Fun." Columbus and Central Ohio Historian No. 1, April 1984. Page 11.
  3. "State Fair Week Amusements." The Union County Journal (Marysville, Ohio), August 26, 1921. Page 7. Accessed through Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-union-county-journal-state-fair-week/161669507/
  4. "Joy Mill to Be Free Ride for Dispatch Picnickers." Columbus Evening Dispatch, July 13, 1929. Page 7.
  5. General Map, The Olentangy Amusement Co., Columbus, Ohio, 1924.
  6. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Sanborn Map Company, - 1922 Vol. 3, 1922, 1922. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn06656_008/.
  7. Advertisement. 1938. The Billboard, May 14, 1938. Page 45. Accessed through the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1938-05-14_50_20/page/44
  8. Franklin Survey Co. Map. 1937. City of Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio, Vol. 1. Accessed through Ebay.com https://www.ebay.com/itm/235251834706