At least two people have gotten married on it. And on a hot summer afternoon, the wooden animals feel cool to bare legs, just as they have every summer since the carousel was installed in 1902.

What Esme didn’t know was the antique wooden carousel she rode is one of a rare group of merry-go-rounds built at the turn of the 20th century and still spinning more than 100 years later.

What Esme didn’t know was the antique wooden carousel she rode is one of a rare group of merry-go-rounds built at the turn of the 20th century and still spinning more than 100 years later.

The horse, which was carved by Charles Carmel in 1910 in Brooklyn, N.Y., was last used as the second-row jumper on a carousel in Myrtle Beach, S.C. It was restored in 1985-86 by Wayne Richardson ...

The Flying Horses Antique Carousel is the oldest merry-go-round in the state. Built in 1912, and brought to Brenham in 1930, the 24-horse amusement ride can still entertain the youngest thrill ...

Daniele Huguenin, far right, hugs Reno Hutchison before the opening of a carousel horse-filled trailer in Sandpoint on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016.

As a result, of the 6,000 to 8,000 hand-carved wooden carousels built in America between 1880 and 1930 — the golden age of the American carousel — fewer than 150 remain, according to the ...

A wooden horse sits on the 1911 Looff carousel on the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, on July 3, 2008 in Santa Cruz, California. The merry-go-round is the oldest ride on the Boardwalk and among the oldest ...

What Esme didn’t know was the antique wooden carousel she rode is one of a rare group of merry-go-rounds built at the turn of the 20th century and still spinning more than 100 years later.