In 1959, a glittering new amusement park beckoned just off Route 128 in Wakefield. Billed as the “Disneyland of the East,” Pleasure Island had it all: themed restaurants, mock gunfights ...

Pleasure Island is now a place of work ... rise and fall of one of the most famous and yet forgotten landmarks in Wakefield. The park changed owners several times, and because of the never ...

Pleasure Island is now a place of work ... rise and fall of one of the most famous and yet forgotten landmarks in Wakefield. The park changed owners several times, and because of the never ...

Courtesy of Flikr Creative Commons Wicker chairs strapped to a cart in Wakefield. – Courtesy of Flikr Creative Commons 3. Pleasure Island, “The Disneyland of the Northeast,’’ was in ...

How did a New Hanover County stretch of Monkey Junction, Carolina Beach, Kure Beach and Fort Fisher become Pleasure Island? Pleasure Island was a peninsula known as Federal Point. The official ...