With Coney Island management wanting to build a larger park elsewhere, was Northern Kentucky ever considered when finding a new place to build the larger park we know today as “Kings Island?”

29 minutes ago, SonofBaconator said:

With Coney Island management wanting to build a larger park elsewhere, was Northern Kentucky ever considered when finding a new place to build the larger park we know today as “Kings Island?”

I don't think so because that's where Fess Parker wanted to build his park. If I remember correctly, they had moved forward with the Kings Mills site before they got the banks to push Fess out. 

I wonder what things would be like if we had Walton/Verona Island Instead? ( Yes I know that's further south than Fess's site).

23 minutes ago, SonofBaconator said:

With Coney Island management wanting to build a larger park elsewhere, was Northern Kentucky ever considered when finding a new place to build the larger park we know today as “Kings Island?”

There was a proposal to bring a Frontier-themed amusement park named "Frontier Worlds" to Boone County around 1968, which would have been around the same time Taft was planning to build Kings Island. Taft probably didn't want to build Kings Island in Northern Kentucky if Frontier Worlds was ever to be built there (spoiler: it wasn't)

As a Boone County resident, it would've been nice to have Kings Island or any other amusement park right in my backyard, but having one of the best amusement parks in the country not even a full hour away is fine too.

https://cbc.bcplhistory.org/doku.php?id=frontier_worlds