Kings Dominion Parking Lot

[belsaas]

Id rather be in the 2009, just saying.

The IIHS/HLDI institute is really near me, and I've gone to see a couple crashes there. It's crazy!

 

[jeffh]

Here's a question about the parking lot -- there's a fenced-off grassy area just to the north of the kennels and next to one of the picnic table pavilions, and on the top of that grassy area are several gravestones. I assume these were existing graves from the people who sold the land to KD in the early 1970s???

 

[Jonesta6]

Don't think this is it but https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thr....northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.hanover

 

[coasterman00]

I have another question about the parking lot... Did they used to run a parking tram? That grassy stretch from the entrance plaza all the way back to the back of the parking lot certainly looks like it was built for a tram...

 

[jeffh]

Don't think this is it but https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thr....northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.hanover

Sure looks like it to me, thanks!

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[Jonesta6]

According to the thread I found, it sounds like the graveyard it mentions is South of the water park and can only be accessed at the end of a service road. Not sure where the water tower it references is though?

 

[Mushroom]

I have another question about the parking lot... Did they used to run a parking tram? That grassy stretch from the entrance plaza all the way back to the back of the parking lot certainly looks like it was built for a tram...

That’s exactly what it was for. The trams ran around the grassy median and looped around near the flagpoles at the entry plaza; that’s why the curb still makes a large circular shape up there. Check out the bottom of this 1975 map.

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