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First opened to the public in 1926, Benson\u2019s Wild Animal Farm in Hudson, New Hampshire, housed a panoply of exotic animals, including, at one point, a presidential primary candidate.<\/p>\n
The farm was founded by Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s hunting buddy John Benson as an animal training center, and expanded in the 1930s with the addition of a circus featuring performances by elephants, chimps and tigers, dozens of rides and a miniature train which circled the 165-acre property. Children could also ride a \u201clive carousel\u201d on the backs of real spotted reindeer.<\/p>\n
At the height of its popularity, a \u201cJungle Train\u201d would run from Boston to Hudson every Sunday, and the farm had a parking lot with room for 5,200 vehicles Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n More about Politics<\/a>, Animals<\/a>, Zoo<\/a>, History<\/a>, and Us<\/a> Image: Leslie Jones\/Boston Public Library First opened to the public in 1926, Benson\u2019s Wild Animal Farm in Hudson, New Hampshire, housed a panoply of exotic animals, including, at one point, a presidential primary candidate. The farm was founded by Teddy … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[912,874,749,865,2661],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-animals","tag-history","tag-politics","tag-us","tag-zoo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"