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Title: Winnwood Beach, the Atlantic City of the Midwest
Description: Discussion of the history and development of Winnwood Beach by Frank Winn approximately in 1912. The resort included three lakes, a water slide, picnic area, children's beach, roller coasters, and 300 building lots near the lakes. A boardwalk came later. The cover of this issue of the Sun Chronicle is a photo of Barbara Smith's painting of Winnwood Beach. After a series of mishaps, the park closed in the 1930s.
Date: 1996-07-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Winnwood Beach
Description: Postcard of Winnwood Beach that was once located between North Kansas City and Liberty in Clay County, Missouri.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Anderson Photo Company Employees
Description: Distant view of participants in a croquet game at the company picnic at Winnwood Beach.
Date: 1930-06-23
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Annual Picnic - Donnelly Garment Company - Winnwood Beach
Description: Panoramic group portrait of employees of the Donnelly Garment Company and their friends and family members taken at Winnwood Beach. Several employees in attendance are wearing Nelly Don hats.
Date: 1930-07-19
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Frank Winn
Description: Obituary for Frank Winn, developer of the Winnwood Beach amusement park and Winnwood residential areas in Clay County, Missouri (popular in the 1910s-1920s), dying at the age of 73 in 1947.
Date: 1947-11-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Winnwood Beach
Description: File contains articles with photos and history of the Winnwood Beach amusement park built in Kansas City, North (near present-day I-35 and Antioch Shopping Center) by Frank Winn on the land of his grandfather Willis Winn (an emigrant from Kentucky and father of William Winn). Depictions and descriptions of the amusement park built about 1912 and operating until 1928 with lakes, a park, zoo, roller coaster, dance pavilion, and "museum of monstrosities" until ruined by fires and building collapses, etc.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: The Journey Back to Winwood Beach
Description: History of the development of the Winnwood Beach mural now hanging in the Clay County Courthouse Annex Building and the accompanying display case of photos and mementos. The mural was painted by Phil Stake under a $10,000 grant received October 1999. Winnwood Beach was often called the "Atlantic City of the West."
Date: 2000-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

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