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Lincoln Park, Dartmouth, 1894 to 1987

Share your Lincoln Park memories

For 93 years the park in the pines between Fall River and New Bedford gave the South Coast its summer nights, and we would love to hear what you remember.

Share a memory

The Comet roller coaster at Lincoln Park on a 1950s postcard, its red and white wooden track rising behind a neon Coaster sign over the entrance, with visitors walking below
The Comet on a Colourpicture postcard from the 1950s. Postcard: Colourpicture, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Why we are asking

Since our story on Lincoln Park ran, so many of you have shared your memories with us, and reading them has been one of the best parts of the week for all of us here.

Whether you rode the Comet with your eyes shut tight, danced to a band in the ballroom, worked a summer behind the counter at the Chocolate Dip or simply remember the trolley pulling in under the pines, we would love to hear your story, and we hope to share some of them as we keep telling the park's history.

If you missed it, our story is here: Lincoln Park in Dartmouth: from a 10-cent trolley ride to the Comet and the ballroom

  • A crowd in long dresses and hats waits under the long open shelter of the Lincoln Park trolley station, with tall pines behind it
    A crowd at the trolley station on a postcard titled "Lincoln Park, On the Electric Road to Fall River," from about 1907 to 1915. Postcard, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A trolley car stops beside the Lincoln Park station on a sandy road lined with pines and telegraph poles
    A trolley at the "Lincoln Park Station between Fall River and New Bedford," from about 1907 to 1915. Postcard, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • The waiting station at Lincoln Park under tall pines, with a trolley coming down the road in the distance
    The "Waiting Station, Lincoln Park, between New Bedford and Fall River," from about 1907 to 1915. Postcard, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A sepia view of the Lincoln Park station shelters among the pines, with the words Lincoln Park written by hand along the bottom
    One of the earliest postcards of the park's station, from about 1901 to 1907. Postcard, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The round carousel pavilion at Battleship Cove in Fall River, under the green steel Braga Bridge
The park's carousel still turns, at Battleship Cove in Fall River, seen here in 2008. Photo: Electroengie, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

We have not found a picture of the ballroom we can share yet, so if you or your family took one, we would be thrilled to see it.