Eldorado Amusement Park

[1][2] It operated as an amusement grounds through 1894,[3] after which time the main building, the Casino, was used to host boxing matches and other athletic events and vaudeville performances.

[8] One of the principals of the company was Hillric J. Bonn; he was the founder of street railways and he directly or indirectly owned large parcels of land in Hudson County, New Jersey.

[10][11] The Palisades Amusement And Exhibition Company also published the show program for Auguste Francioli's Egypt Through Centuries in 1892.

[12][13] In 1891, Kiralfy's King Solomon's Mine was the opening production in the park's amphitheater[14] Augusto Francioli's 'Egypt Through Centuries' was the theater's 1892 season show, one of numerous Egyptian Theaters of the 19th and 20th centuries in America.

[15] The park stated it was "the most beautiful amusement resort in the world"[16] with the amphitheatre having a claimed seating capacity from 12,000[17] or 15,000 persons.

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