Adventure Town

Adventure Town was a wild west theme park located in Alexandria Bay, NY.

It opened in the summer of 1955 and closed on Labor Day, 1961. The park had stage coaches, a steam locomotive, stunt shows, an Indian Village, and it's own lake. The project was done by Bud Hebert and George Clark, owners of the Edgewood Resort Hotel and international speedway. According to some the park was very successful but was closed because the owners found it difficult to manage both the theme park and their other ventures.

"Adventure Town's sheriff with one of his deputies, use blazing six-guns and sawed-off shotgun to bring down the McCoy Brothers, after the notorious trio refuse to check guns at the Wild Horse Saloon upon arrival in Adventure Town."

It is said that the Locomotive Train and the two Stage Coaches were sold to Silver Dollar City when Adventure town closed up. 5,000 for the two coaches and 30,000 for the locomotive.

The locomotive was called the Davy Crockett Express. Before it's service at Adventure town it had an interesting history. The coal-burning engine was built by Henry Ford in order to teach the principles of locomotion to his grandsons, Henry II and Benson.

As for the two coaches one of the coaches was made in 1888 in a small town in New Hampshire, while the other once belonged to the Vanderbilt family.

More detailed information will be added as it is available.

All Black & White Photographs we're sent in by Darryl King.

Thanks Darryl !!

Also, here are a couple pictures that I haven't had a chance to make pages for.

This picture of and Adventure Town hat was sent in by John Callard. Thanks John.

And some very interesting comments Glenn Hudon left..

I remember Adventure Town !!!!!!!!!! May 1st 1955 I arrived with 6 horses that I leased to them for the summer. At that time A-Town was just a lot of piles of lumber..in 6 weeks it would be a working town.! Everything was go !! Still no train tracks for the Davey Crocket Express which was bought fro the Fords..it was a play toy for the Ford kids..I bebleve that it went to Silver Dollar City in Branson Mo. Next came the stage coach..one of the 13 Abbotts Downing built Concord coaches left in use. My job was animals..get more horses !!!ride all the time to get them used to gun fire,22 shell and shot guns..also train whistles, etc some stayed..others were traded off for calmer natured ones. People I remember most..Danny O'Neil the boss, a great guy, he could get the work done !!, Jack (Beechnut) McDougle and Ken Davis teamsters they drove the coaches..Dave Timmerman ended up being the sharrif (a good choice).Bill Weston..he filled in where ever they needed a hired gun..Bruce Winters also very flexable(known as Big noes red), Bennie Darou.cowboy..Barb Hinman the one girl in the bunch ..she rode and worked every where...running out of space...have more to tell you when I get more space..!!!!!! Glenn
Hudon

955-61..very successful but Edgewood was growing and 2 businesses was too much to put up with.............that's all for now !!!!! Glenn Hudon

And comments left by Chris Williams.. from web research..

Here is some information I have on a guy that was the locomotive engineer. (I don't know if there was more than one) Charles Harrison Born: July 27, 1885 - Russell, Ont., CAN Came to the United States in 1906 Age at Death: 98 Died at Hospital in Alexandria Bay, N. Y. Burial: Barnes Settlement Cemetery.. Residence: Plessis, N. Y .. Parents’ Names: Peter and Lottie Coventry Harrison .. worked for 12 years at Frink’s in Clayton. He then retired but when he was 77 he was offered a job as engineer of the Davy Crockett Express at Adventure Town, Edgewood Resort and was called, “Old Casey Jones.”