The Carousel Society of the Niagara Frontier was created in 1980 to return a North Tonawanda built carousel to the area. The original factory, now the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum was opened to visitors in 1986 operating a 1916 Allan Herschell machine purchased in 1982. In 1997, the then owner of the Allan_Herschell_Company assets auctioned the remaining inventory, archives and documents back to the society, the factory museum’s parent body.
