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Kit Carson County Carousel, Burlington

Armored Horse on the Kit Carson County Carousel, Burlington.Hippocampus on the Kit Carson County Carousel, Burlington.History goes in cycles, they say.  Time wheels back around to where it has already been; new becomes old becomes new again.  Witness the Kit Carson County Carousel, which began spinning in 1905 at Elitch Gardens in Denver.  Built by the Philadelphia Toboggan