The Corridor Review Committee with the St. Augustine city government met Thursday to discuss a plan to bring a new carousel to Davenport Park. It was approved.

The Corridor Review Committee with the St. Augustine city government will meet Thursday afternoon to discuss a plan to bring a new carousel to Davenport Park.

The St. Augustine City Commission met Monday to discuss a plan to bring an iconic carousel that was dismantled in Davenport Park back to the area.

Nearly five years after St. Augustine's iconic carousel was dismantled in Davenport Park, there's a new plan to bring it back for local and visiting families to enjoy.

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2003 file photo, Gerry Marsden holds his MBE. Gerry Marsden, the British singer and lead singer of Gerry and the Pacemakers, who was instrumental in turning a song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel into one of the great anthems in the world of football, has died. (Matthew Fearn/PA via AP, File)LONDON – Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the 1960s British group Gerry and the Pacemakers that had such hits as “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and the song that became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club, “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” has died. “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”Marsden was the lead singer of the band that found fame in the Merseybeat scene in the 1960s. I’m going to tell my band we’re going to play that song,” Marsden told The Associated Press in 2018 when recalling the first time he heard the song at the cinema.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - After the site of an iconic carousel that delighted children for more than two decades in St. Augustine became a vacant dirt lot, an effort began online to raise money to replace the attraction. But a GoFundMe account was created by a St. Augustine resident to raise money for a new carousel. "Now it's time for us positive, loving, giving people to replace the Carousel with a new Love Carousel! People coming together to raise money to locate, purchase and re-locate another wonderful, festive, musical, colorful Carousel for children and families and visitors to create beautiful, loving memories again. As of 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, the GoFundMe, which was started earlier in the day, had raised $365 of its $100,000 goal.