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Six Flags New EnglandSix Flags New England, or SFNE, is an amusement park in the Six Flags chain of parks, named for the New England region in which it is located. Six Flags New England is located in Agawam, Massachusetts, near Springfield, Massachusetts. It is so close to the state border that some of the park is actually in the state of Connecticut. Like most other Six Flags parks, Six Flags New England is divided into two sections: the amusement park, which includes major attractions such as "Superman: The Ride of Steel", "Mind Eraser" and "Batman: The Dark Knight", and the water park, which doubled its size for the 2002 season. Throughout most of the 20th century, the park was known as Riverside. It started out as a picnic grove called Gallops Grove in 1840. It eventually was renamed to Riverside Grove, then Riverside Park. In the early 1940s, the park acquired its first ride, a wooden roller coaster called the Thunderbolt which still operates today. In 1996, the Carrol family - who had owned Riverside Park for many years - sold the park to Premier Parks. For two years, the park became known as "Riverside, The Great Escape". When Premier Parks purchased Six Flags from Time Warner in 1998, Riverside became rebranded as "Six Flags New England". The main street running through the park was renamed "Carrol Drive" in honor of the family which had owned it for so long. Six Flags New England also offers a FastLane system (not to be confused with the Massachusetts Turnpike FastLane system), that allows riders to use the Q-Bot to wait in line for them while they wait in other lines. Riverside used to be home to a NASCAR race track called Riverside Park Speedway. However, the speedway was removed in 1999, and that area is now taken up partly by the Superman: Ride of Steel roller coaster. External links
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