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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. Pleasure Beach Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Pleasure Beach Bridge is a movable Warren through-truss bridge in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Completed in 1927, it functioned as a toll bridge until the Great Depression, when it was transferred to the city of Bridgeport. Its service life came to an end after it was badly damaged by fire in 1996, cutting off access to Pleasure Beach. In the ...

  5. Bridgeport Harbor - Wikipedia

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    Pleasure Beach, also known as "Steeplechase Island" is a former amusement park and ghost town. It is the site of the transmission towers for WICC (AM) . The PSEG Bridgeport Harbor Generating Station is a familiar piece of the Bridgeport skyline.

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Connecticut

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    The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]

  7. List of ghost towns in Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Pleasure Beach: Fairfield [5] Notes and references This page was last edited ...

  8. Category:Beaches of Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 18 December 2024, at 01:33 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. List of beaches in New England - Wikipedia

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    South Shore Beach a.k.a. Town of Little Compton Beach [11] Goosewing Beach (owned by The Nature Conservancy, includes Benjamin Family Environmental Center, adjacent to Quicksand Pond, accessed from South Shore Beach) [12] Beach at Little Pond Cove; Beach at Briggs Marsh; Warren's Point Beach Club (private) Beach at Round Pond; Lloyd's Beach ...