Palestine Park sounds like a place that was created by Israel’s detractors in the last two years to serve as an encampment to vilify Israel. In reality it was created in 1874 by Reverend W. W. Wythe to serve as a teaching aid in the study of the Bible.

Located in Chautauqua, New York (about a three hour drive from Toronto), in an area the size of a football field a walk through model of the Holyland was created.  The shore of Lake Chautauqua serves as the Mediterranean Sea with plaster mountains and cities, and an artificial (and miniature) Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee and Jordan River, completing the experience.  

The model is built to scale of about one and three-quarter feet........

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