Wildwater Kingdom is a waterpark located in Aurora, Ohio

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, originally founded in 1888 as Geauga Lake.
Geauga Lake had operated primarily as an amusement park. On September 21, 2007, Cedar Fair, the park's owner, announced that the traditional amusement park would close down and that the property would operate solely as a waterpark, beginning in the 2008 season.
Geauga Lake was previously known as "Picnic Lake" or "Giles Pond." Sullivan Giles chose this area for his log cabin in 1817.