Kings Dominion (*) (Doswell, Virginia) - opened 1975 acquired in 2006.Worlds of Fun (Kansas City, Missouri) - opened 1973 acquired in 1995.Carowinds (*) (Charlotte, North Carolina portion in Fort Mill, South Carolina) - opened 1973 acquired in 2006.Kings Island (*) (Mason, Ohio) - opened 1972 acquired in 2006.Michigan's Adventure (Muskegon, Michigan) - opened 1956 acquired in 2001.Knott's Berry Farm (Buena Park, California) - opened 1940 acquired in 1997.Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom (Allentown, Pennsylvania) - opened 1884 acquired in 1992.Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio) - opened 1870.In 2006, the company purchased a group of parks around the US (and one in Canada) previously owned by Paramount Pictures as Paramount Parks note before then, they had been under KECO, the Kings Entertainment Company, formed in the mid-1980s by a group of managers and executives who purchased the parks from their former owner, Taft Broadcasting, owners of Hanna-Barbera ironically, Kings Island, the Cincinnati flagship, featured in an episode of The Brady Bunch, as Paramount was an investor in Taft at the time. In 1978, Cedar Point acquired Valleyfair, after which the company was renamed to Cedar Fair (a portmanteau of "Cedar" from Cedar Point, and "Fair" from Valleyfair). The company started in 1870 as a recreational park named Cedar Point, which initially belonged to Cedar Point Pleasure Company. Cedar Fair Entertainment Company (simply known as Cedar Fair) is publicly-traded company headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio that operates twelve amusement parks, five water parks (four outdoor, one indoor), and five hotels.
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