Lake Winnepesaukah has the oldest ride of what type, which finishes with a climactic splashdown?
Lake Winnepesaukah Lake Winnepesaukah, commonly known as Lake Winnie, is an amusement park located in Rossville, Georgia, just south of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Carl and Minette Dixon opened the park to over 5,000 guests on June 1, 1925. They named it after the Native American word "Winnepesaukah", meaning “bountiful waters” or “beautiful lake of the highlands”. The park originally featured the largest swimming pool in the southeastern United States, which debuted in 1926 and was later removed. Its Boat Chute attraction, designed by Carl Dixon, opened in 1927 and is the oldest mill chute water ride of its kind still in operation in the United States.
Island Blossom The "Island Blossom" is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in 1892, by William Sidney Covington in Tilghman, Maryland. She is a 32 ft sailing log canoe with a beam of 6 ft . Double-ended, her bow is sharp with a straight, slightly raking stem and a longhead, and she has a sharp stern. The canoe is privately owned by the family John C. North II, descendants of Mr. Covington, and races under No. 9. She is one of the last 22 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay log canoes, carrying on a tradition of racing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that has existed since the 1840s. Skippered since 1999 by Corbin Penwell of St. Michaels, Maryland, "Island Blossom" has won a record nine consecutive High Point trophies for the fleet's overall season winner, finishing first overall from 2009-2017 to top the record originally set by Doug Hanks Sr., also aboard "Blossom", between 1981-1986 and matched by Tyler Johnson on "Persistence" from 1998-2003. She is located at St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland.