Americawood Park

Americawood Park is an amusement park located in Henrietta, Texas. It first opened in 1972 under the name Texas Summerland; however, it would close only 13 months after it's grand opening due to a lack of attendance. It would later be sold to Baker Amusements and re-opened in 1974 under the new name Americana Wonderland. The park would then be renamed again in 1984 to Crazy Americana, and then when the park was sold to a new company called M.T.A.C. Company in 1989, The park's name change once again to Americawood Park, it's current name.

History
The park opened as Texas Summerland in 1972 as a family owned amusement park in an effort to compete with Six Flags Over Texas. It featured three coasters at the time of it's opening: Texas Streak, Railblazer and Rat Maze.

In 1973, The park closed down 13 months after their park opening not only due to a lack of attendance, but also they won't enough money to continue operating the park. And then in late of that year, Baker Amusements bought the closed-down park and later reopened under the new name Americana Wonderland in 1974 with new rides and attractions that the family who originally owned the park was hoping for.

In 1977, park officials were looking for a new coaster that would change the park's history. After the owner riding Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion during his trip, he had an idea for the next coaster something that Texans would love, a wooden racing coaster. They loved the idea. So for this Texas wooden racing coaster project, the park contacted John Allen, the man who designed Rebel Yell, to build the new coaster that the park wanted but he can't because he's retired from making coasters after Screamin' Eagle at Six Flags St. Louis. So he suggested the park hire William Cobb instead. So they contacted William Cobb to build the new coaster. Cobb agreed to the project and built the new racing wooden coaster at the park. In 1978 they got Cyclone trains that Kursaal Amusement Park demolished the ride; in 1974, they added lap bars on those trains by the park owner.

In 1978, the park opened The Lone Star Racer, a clone of both Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion and Thunder Road at Carowinds. It became a huge hit for the park. They made an advertising campaign for that ride with said in the advertisement "Who wins the Lone Star race?". When everyone who won the race on The Lone Star Racer, they give everyone a bumper sticker that says "I win the Lone Star race". They made t-shirts, postcards, and even a pin-back button that also said "I win the Lone Star race".

Flat rides
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Kiddie rides
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Trivia

 * When the Lone Star Racer first opened in 1978, the original trains were from Cyclone at Kursaal Amusement Park. Americawood Park brought the trains in when Cyclone was torn down in 1974. It was left in storage for 3 years until they used those trains for the Lone Star Racer. Their park utilized the two Cyclone trains from 1978 to 1982, when they purchased new 6-seater wooden coaster trains from PTC. The Cyclone trains were later scrapped.
 * In the 1989 season, one side was reversed to run backwards, because this was inspired by Backwards Racer at Kings Island from 1982 to 2007 (around when Six Flags bought Kings Island). This one lasted until 2009, when the park announced that since the park realized that PTC told the park that the trains were never designed to run backwards. They run backwards again in the 2019 season to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Backwards Lone Star Racer to run backwards for the first time.

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