Editing Cedar Point (section)

===Boeckling era===
[[File:Cedar Point Hotel Breakers from the lake in 1905.png|thumb|right|upright=1.2|Lake view of Hotel Breakers (1905)]]
Representatives of the [[Lake Erie and Western Railroad]] purchased the peninsula for {{USD|256000|1897|round=-2|about=yes|link=yes}} in 1897 and formed the Cedar Point Pleasure Resort Company.<ref name="Boeckling obituary">{{cite web|url=http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p267401coll13/id/1669/rec/1|title=G.A. Boeckling, Cedar Point Chief, is Dead|date=July 25, 1931|access-date=April 14, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Star Journal 1922">{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/sandusky-star-journal/1922-12-02/page-7/|title=Cedar Point Development Planned: First in 1836; Sold for High Price|date=December 2, 1922|work=Sandusky Star Journal|page=7|access-date=April 14, 2012}}</ref> The company appointed [[George Arthur Boeckling|George A. Boeckling]], a businessman from Indiana, as the park's new manager. Under his tenure, the peninsula was transformed from a picnic ground into a nationally recognized amusement park and resort destination.<ref name="History-Edwards" /><ref name="cphistorypage">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cedarpoint.com/media-center/park-history |title=The History of Fun: Cedar Point Celebrates Its Past |work=Cedar Point |access-date=August 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622122424/http://www.cedarpoint.com/media-center/park-history |archive-date=June 22, 2012}}</ref>

The second roller coaster at Cedar Point, the Figure-Eight Roller Toboggan, debuted in 1902. It was moved several years later and renamed The Racer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rcdb.com/1853.htm |title=Three-Way Figure Eight Roller Toboggan |publisher=RCDB.com |access-date=April 14, 2012}}</ref> A [[pony]] track was built near the beach the same year. [[Mosquito]]s were an issue, so in 1904, the park hired the Detroit Dredging Company to drain swampy areas on the peninsula, thereby connecting a series of [[lagoon]]s to form a water passageway that quickly became one of the park's signature attractions. Aside from sightseeing passenger boats, the passageway was used to transport coal to power plants near the center of the peninsula.<ref name="History-Edwards" /> The historic [[Hotel Breakers]] opened in 1905 as one of the largest hotels in the Midwest; it had 600 guest rooms and a cafe that could seat 400 guests. A new area of the park called "Amusement Circle" was designed in 1906 to link the pier to the beach. It was located southeast of the Coliseum, a large arena built the same year that featured a grand ballroom and other attractions.<ref name="cphistorypage" />

[[File:Leap the Dips in the 1920s.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.9|Leap the Dips, circa 1920s]]
The Dip the Dips Scenic Railway roller coaster opened in 1908, but it was soon overshadowed by the larger Leap the Dips ride that opened in 1912. In 1917, Dip the Dips was razed and replaced by the Leap Frog Scenic Railway. With a  growing assortment of rides including three roller coasters, Cedar Point was beginning to grow as an amusement park. However, that wasn't a priority for Boeckling. He marketed the peninsula primarily as a bathing resort complete with shows, exhibits, motion pictures, and other forms of entertainment, but did not place emphasis on the park's rides.<ref name="Francis-p51">{{cite book |last1=Francis |first1=David W. |last2=Francis |first2=Diane DeMali |title=Cedar Point: The Queen of American Watering Places |year=1988 |publisher=Daring Books |location=Canton, Ohio |isbn=0-938936-75-1 |page=51 |chapter=5}}</ref>

Several additional hotels and restaurants were constructed in the remaining years of Boeckling's tenure, including Hotel Cedars, White House Hotel, Crystal Rock Castle and Crystal Gardens Ballroom.<ref name="History 1870–2013" /> Cedar Point continued to update its ride attractions, replacing the Racer, the Circle Swing, and other rides to make way for a Shoot-the-Chutes water ride, a Tilt-A-Whirl, and fun houses such as Noah's Ark and Bluebeard's Palace.<ref name="History 1870–2013" /> The Cyclone, a wooden roller coaster, opened in 1929. Boeckling, who was still attempting to expand the park,<ref name="Francis Francis 2004 p. ">{{cite book | last1=Francis | first1=D.W. | last2=Francis | first2=D.D.M. | title=Cedar Point | publisher=Arcadia | series=Images of America | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-7385-3234-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9_KcYZw_c4C | page=8}}</ref> died from [[uremia]] on July 24, 1931.<ref name="History 1870–2013">{{cite web |url=http://thepointol.com/cedar-point-history-1870-1904/ |title=The Point Online History |publisher=ThePointOL.com |access-date=January 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511013349/http://thepointol.com/cedar-point-history-1870-1904/ |archive-date=May 11, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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