The explorer Henry Hudson, commanding the "Half-Moon," puts in at Coney Island before continuing into what is now called New ... park at Coney Island. George C. Tilyou opens Steeplechase Park ...

Coney Island is a twentieth-century icon of American fun, and the birthplace of the large-scale amusement park. George Tilyou's grinning "funny face" logo for Steeplechase ... days at New York's ...