Not quite next door to you, and it's only one, and not antique, but there's
a nice one at the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown NY.
<http://www.farmersmuseum.org/farmers/on_view/carousel_and_country_fair>
Michael
On 9/9/10 12:01 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> If you're into carousels you need to come to the triple cities area of
> Binghamton/Johnson City/Endicott, NY which calls itself the carousel
> capital of the world.
>
> "Greater Binghamton has the only carousel collection of this kind in the
> world. Of the fewer than 150 antique carousels remaining in the United
> States and Canada, six by Allen Herschell are in Greater Binghamton, New
> York.
>
> Because of the uniqueness of these carousels and the incomparable
> circumstances of their survival and existence, all six are placed on the
> New York State Historic Register and the National Register of Historic
> Places."
>
> See: <http://www.gobroomecounty.com/community/carousels>
> <http://placeandmemory.org/index.php?title=The_Carousel_Capitol_of_the_World,_
> Broome_County,_New_York>
>
> Sorry, not much in the way of pictures to be found on the web. Maybe I
> should fix that. One of them is only about 1/2 mile from my house.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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