Consider the Fall River Carousel for your next special event. Conversation peices abound with 48 hand-carved horses and two chariots, as well as hundreds of intricate carvings and detailed paintings of pastoral scenes. Awe your guests will a panaoramic view of Mount Hope Bay, then tantalize their palates with items from our carousel menus.

Baby showers. Waterfront receptions. Holiday parties. There's no end to the number of events you can host at this historic seaside venue.

WAR HORSES: One legend has it that carousels were developed as an early device to teach cavalrymen how to fight on horseback. Whether this is true or not, carousels do have some interesting links to the military.

• Spurred by a surge of patriotism following the Boer War (1899-1902), centaurs appeared on several British-made carousels; these double-seater horses replaced their usual heads with lifelike, waist-up carvings of domestic political or military heroes.
• In the early 1940s, Winston Churchill ordered that Britain's carousels be re-opened, despite widespread material shortages, to boost morale during WW II.
  
• Reputedly, one of the C.W. Parker Company's most notable former employees was Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of D-Day in World War II and later U.S. President, who, as a young lad, was said to have sanded carousel horses at the Parker factory located near his home in Abilene, Kansas.
  

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