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| {{Infobox attraction
| | #REDIRECT [[The Great Hereafter]] |
| | name = Creation or The Great Hereafter
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| | othernames = The Hereafter
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| | type = Exhibition
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| | section = Unknown
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| | built = 1906
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| | opened = 1906
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| | closed = 1906
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| An "amusement device" called "[[Creation or The Great Hereafter]]"<ref name="zoo">"Opening of Zoo." ''The Columbus Sunday Dispatch.'' May 7, 1905. Page 6.</ref> that opened at Olentangy Park in [[1906 Season|1906]].<ref>"Olentangy Park Opens on April 29." ''Columbus Evening Dispatch.'' April 15, 1906. Page 7.</ref><ref name="zoo2">"The Columbus Zoo." ''The Columbus Sunday Dispatch.'' May 21, 1905. Page 7.</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-marion-star-the-opening-of-olentangy/161648170/ "The Opening of Olentangy Park."] ''The Marion Star (Marion, Ohio).'' April 28, 1906. Page 10. Accessed through Newspapers.com.</ref>
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| The production opened at the nearby Columbus Zoological Garden in 1905 and was described as having "many novel features in illusion, magic, and black art."<ref name="zoo" /> It was described as being similar to the one produced at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and had "great scenic and mechanical effects and [carried] a company of 50 people."<ref name="zoo2" />
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| The original "Creation" ride was created and built by Henry Roltair for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. That version was a three-hour dark ride featuring a combination of a boat ride and walking tour that "showed panoramas of the natural world and various illusions before leading them into a great central dome that had panoramic views of a representation of the six days of creation." William Reynolds bought the ride and installed a sped-up, improved version that famously featured a 24-foot white plaster statue of a bare-breasted woman at Dreamland at Coney Island, New York.<ref>Wilk, Stephen R. ''Lost Wonderland: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Boston’s Million Dollar Amusement Park.'' Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. The book mispells his name as Roltaire.</ref>
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| Similarly named attractions at Athletic Park<ref>Stanton, Jeffrey. [http://lostamusementparks.napha.org/Articles/NewYork/CarnivalCourtPark-BuffaloNY.html "Athletic Park, Luna Park, Carnival Court Park - Buffalo N.Y. 1904 - 1918."] ''National Amusement Park Historical Association.'' Accessed on July 29, 2022.</ref> depicted Heaven and Hell, and also at Dreamland, was an electric opera that showed the destruction of the world by fire, and "the Biblical epic, using a chorus of 200 singers, showed the Damnation of Faust and the Salvation of Marguerite in detail."<ref>Stanton, Jeffrey. [https://www.westland.net/coneyisland/articles/dreamland.htm "Coney Island - Dreamland."] ''Westland Network.'' Last modified April 6, 1998. Accessed on July 26, 2022.</ref> Similar attractions at other parks were towering three to five stories high. However, Olentangy Park's version was likely one to two stories with an elaborate front entrance.
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| It most likely only operated for one season.
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| == References ==
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| {{Attractions}}
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| {{Park Sections}}
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| [[Category:Attractions]]
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| [[Category:Dark Rides]]
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| [[Category:Water Rides]]
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| [[Category:Added in 1906]]
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| [[Category:Closed in 1906]]
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| {{#seo:|description=An amusement ride called Creation or The Great Hereafter that opened at Olentangy Park in 1906.}}
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