Qualla: Camden Park https://qualla.com/camden-park-amusement-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Camden Park https://qualla.com/camden-park-amusement-park Camden Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/camden-park-amusement-park/ At the start of the twentieth century, American interurban trolley companies needed a way to keep their cars full on weekends. The solution was the trolley park - a destination at the end of the line, or at a junction where lines crossed, where families could spend a Sunday afternoon. Hundreds of these parks opened across the United States between 1890 and 1915. Most are gone now, killed by cars, by the demise of trolley systems, by changing American leisure patterns. Thirteen remain open. One of them is Camden Park, on the western edge of Huntington, West Virginia, founded in 1903 by the Camden Interstate Railway Company and named for former U.S. Senator Johnson N. Camden of West Virginia. The Boylin family still runs it.

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