[2] The carousel utilizes an under-animal scissor support system, which is an example of an earlier and simpler technology in the development of the merry-go-round.

Gifford, of Iowa Falls, at some point acquired the carousel and brought it to Story City every other year on the Fourth of July.

The Greater Community Congress of Story City bought the carousel for $1,200 in 1938 when the usual arrangement fell through.

[2] It was stored in a local grain elevator when it was not is use until 1981 when the Greater Community Congress restored the carousel and had a pavilion built to shelter it.

This article about a property in Story County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.