The wooden carousel was built in 1912, and moved to the park from its original home, at Coney Island, in 1952.

William H. Dentzel of Port Townsend, Washington is the only descendant from a founding American carousel family of the United States still making wooden carousels.

It is the first hand-carved indoor wooden carousel to be built and operated in the United States since the early 1930s.

It is one of the last factory complexes in the United States which contained the production of wooden carousels.

A full-sized wooden carousel based on the history, geography and folklore of New York State.

Outside the restaurant there is a charming, working, wooden carousel, imported from the Dentzel Carousel Company in Port Townsend, Wash.

The Ferry County Carousel is one of only seven classic wooden carousels in Washington state and possibly the oldest.

The antique wooden carousel is one of only 200 remaining in the country from the thousands that existed at the turn of the 20th century.

"Restoring an antique wooden carousel can cost as much as $500,000," Mrs. Dinger said.

Rather than the nostril-flaring steeds of yore, the hand-carved figures on a wooden carousel being built in Willowbrook Park will represent endangered and wild animals.