There is some mystery as to Wheeling Island and an amusement park. It would seem this is the same location as the old State Fair. Dates unknown now. Inotherwords an amusement park operated here unknown years and the state fair was an annual event.

In 1924 WVA State Fairground had a Miller/Smith Roller Coaster called 'DIPS' that closed in 1936

The First Annual Fair & Stock Exhibition was held on Wheeling Island, October 9-12, 1866. The first event to be called the state fair occurred in Wheeling on February 1, 1881. Today, the fair takes place the last week of August in Fairlea near Lewisburg.

Old posting from a forum....

I live 5 minutes from Wheeling. 1 minute if I had a boat. Wheeling Park and Oglebay Park are both still around. Never knew of them to be amusement parks. I'm pretty sure they are state funded parks. I'll have to check into that. Both have paddle boats, golf courses, putt-putt, swimming pools, blah, blah, blah. The closest either come to an amusement park is Oglebay's train ride in the Good Zoo. [wrong--webmaster] No. wait. Grandma just told me that Wheeling Park had a merry-go-round. She's not sure about Oglebay. As for the Coney Island and Luna Park. One or the other could be true. There used to be a park on the current site of Wheeling Racetrack and Gaming Resort or what ever they're calling the place now. I have a picture somewhere of it somewhere when the Ohio River flooded it years ago. Grandma says that neither name rings a bell for the park on the island (Wheeling Island that is). She said she was just a little girl when she used to go there. She's 70-something now. My pap could've told me more, but he passed away this past December. He was an amusement park lover too. You got me wondering now. I might have to go to Wheeling Library and look some stuff up. Do a search on posts in the past year. It seems like I typed some of this stuff on here before.