NORTH TONAWANDA – Just past the gift shop and through doors that swing open like a saloon entrance, there is a work- room strewn with tools. A small crew of men in their 70s and 80s gathers there to ...
NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. — A historic Western New York landmark has just received a boost in funding. New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced that The Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum in ...
The society went looking for an original carousel that had been built in the Herschell factory and found one privately owned in London, Ont. They bought it, broke it down into hundreds of pieces and ...
NORTH TONAWANDA -- Hand-carved wooden carrousels were once common in the United States. It is estimated that fewer than 150 hand-carved carrousels exist today in the United States. The Herschell ...
NORTH TONAWANDA -- Though there were many carrousel companies during the “Golden Age” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, only a handful are considered to have been major manufacturers. One of ...
A larger carousel (from Baltimore's Gwynn Oak park) replaces the merry-go-round that was on the National Mall since 1967. The 60 horses of the new carousel were built in 1947 by the Allan Herschell ...