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  2. Pleasure Beach - Wikipedia

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    Pleasure Beach is the Bridgeport portion of a Connecticut barrier beach that extends 2.5 miles (4 km) westerly from Point No Point (the portion in the adjoining town of Stratford is known as Long Beach). Prior to June, 2014, when Pleasure Beach re-opened, the area was Connecticut's largest and most recent ghost town [1] after it was abandoned ...

  3. Geography of Bridgeport, Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Pleasure Beach (formerly known as Steeplechase Island), is a 71-acre (sometimes) island located in Long Island Sound, to the south of city's East End, and is connected by the Long Beach sandspit to Stratford, Connecticut. Great Marsh Island is a 14-acre island located near the mouth of Ash Creek in the Black Rock neighborhood.

  4. Sherwood Island State Park - Wikipedia

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    Sherwood Island State Park is a public recreation area on the shore of Long Island Sound in the Greens Farms section of Westport, Connecticut. [3] The state park offers swimming, fishing, and other activities on 238 acres (96 ha) of beach, wetlands, and woodlands. Sherwood Island is numbered as Connecticut's first state park because state ...

  5. Bridgeport, Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut [7] and the fifth-most populous city in New England, with a population of 148,654 in 2020. [3] Located in eastern Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, it is a port city 60 miles (97 km) from Manhattan and 40 miles (64 km) from The Bronx.

  6. Hartford Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Hartford Colony is located in the central portion of Waterford's southern coastline. It is set on the southwest side of a lobe of land that forms the east side of Jordan Cove, and includes the south-facing Magonk Point (the district's southern and eastern limit) and southwest-facing White Point, and is roughly bounded on the north by Pleasure Beach and Lindros Lane.

  7. List of beaches in New England - Wikipedia

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    City Point Beach at Farragut Road; Pleasure Bay beaches (on Day Boulevard side and Castle Island; Dorchester Shores Reservation (discontinuous) Malibu Beach; Savin Hill Beach; Tenean Beach (Neponset River) Constitution Beach, Belle Isle Marsh Reservation; Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Bumpkin Island; Lovell's Island Beach ...

  8. How the Gilgo Beach serial killer turned the Long Island ...

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    More than a decade after 11 bodies were found dumped in Long Beach, married father of two and Manhattan-based architect Rex Heuermann is under arrest. Does this mean the hunt for the Gilgo Beach ...

  9. Shippan Point - Wikipedia

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    A postcard c. 1908.. Shippan Point (or Shippan) is the southernmost neighborhood in Stamford, Connecticut, United States, located on a peninsula in Long Island Sound.Street names such as Ocean Drive West and Lighthouse Way reflect the neighborhood's shoreline location.