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Lake Shawnee Amusement Park
Amusement park in 2013
LocationPrinceton, West Virginia, U.S.
Coordinates37°24′22″N 81°08′33″W / 37.406050°N 81.142372°W / 37.406050; -81.142372
StatusDefunct
Opened1926
Closed1988

The Lake Shawnee Amusement Park is a defunct amusement park in Princeton, West Virginia, United States, located along Lake Shawnee. Opened in 1926, the park operated for 62 years before closing in 1988.[1][2] It received public attention for urban legends regarding the park being haunted due to accidental deaths supposedly caused by "cursed land".[3]

  1. ^ "Lake Shawnee Is Closed By Health Department". Beckley Post-Herald. 10 July 1967. p. 6.
  2. ^ Pitts, Phillip. West Virginia Antiquities Commission, Oct. 1976, Lake Shawnee.
  3. ^ Kuruvilla, Carol (October 26, 2013). "Abandoned West Virginia amusement park has a bloody history". New York Daily News. Retrieved September 1, 2017.

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