Lake Winnepesaukah has the oldest ride of what type, which finishes with a climactic splashdown?
Old Mill (ride) An old mill is a type of amusement park ride with unaccompanied boats floated on guideways through dark tunnels. These themed dark rides originated in the late 19th century and are known by a variety of names, including tunnel of love and river cave. While generally considered a gentle ride, a variation that ends with a climactic splashdown, similar to the modern-day log flume, is known as a mill chute.
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.