Eldorado was actually an amusement park atop the palisades, who built the elevator (by Eiffel of the tower fame) for attendees to get up the palisades from the ferries. Opened 1891 closed 1893(?) main bldg used until 1898
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Eldorado Elevator
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The Eldorado Elevator rose from the West Shore Ferry Terminal at Weehawken to meet the streetcar line that travelled along a trestle to a cut in the Palisades which ran parallel to the Eldorado, a pleasure garden, and then proceeded east and north to the Nungesser's Guttenberg Racetrack