Tiny Town

Tiny Town

Infobox Amusement park
name = Tiny Town


caption =
location = 6249 South Turkey Creek Road Morrison, Colorado 80465
opening_date = 1920
closing_date =
previous_names =
season = daily Memorial Day - Labor Day, weekends in May and September
area =
rides= 1
owner = Quaintance family
slogan = Have a big time in Tiny Town
homepage = [http://www.tinytownrailroad.com/ tinytownrailroad.com]

Tiny Town is a RailGauge|15 gauge miniature railway set in a miniature village of over 100 1/6 scale buildings in Morrison, Colorado.

History

George Turner, owner of Denver business Turner Moving & Storage and a friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, began building a miniature town for his daughter in 1915. Called Turnerville, he opened the site to the public in 1921. [cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2002/08/19/story5.html |title=Tourists escape to local amusement venues |accessdate=2007-04-16 |last=Moore |first=Paula |date=2002-08-16 |format= |work=Denver Business Journal |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

Turnerville quickly became one of the state's most popular attractions, but it was plagued by damage from adjacent Turkey Creek flooding and a fire burned down the Indian pueblo in 1935. The train was added in 1939 and the name became Tiny Town. [cite web |url=http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060703/COLUMNISTS02/607030341/0/BLOGS0502 |title=Tiny Town attracts big interest |accessdate=2007-04-16 |last=Billings |first=Hankd |date=2006-07-03 |format= |work=News-Leader (Springfield, MO) |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl=http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:0s8ylL-NM74J:www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060703/COLUMNISTS02/607030341/0/BLOGS0502 |archivedate=2007-02-25 |quote= ]

Further reading

*cite book |last=Black |first=Carla |title=Tiny Town, From Tragedy to Triumph |origdate= |origyear=1990 |origmonth= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |date= |year= |month= |publisher=F. Pruett |location=Boulder, CO |isbn=0962386820 |oclc=21958210
*cite book |last=Brooks |first=Alice Jeanne |coauthors=Demaris Martindale Madsen |title=Tiny Town, Boom or Bust |origdate= |origyear=1989 |origmonth= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |date= |year= |month= |publisher=Wildflower Press |location=Morrison, CO |isbn= |oclc=21867018

ee also

*Ridable miniature railway

References

External links

* [http://www.tinytownrailroad.com/ Tiny Town Railroad] official site


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