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Freedomland U.S.A. (often shortened to Freedomland) was a theme park dedicated to American history in the Baychester section of the northeastern Bronx in New York City, United States. Freedomland was built on marshland owned by the Webb and Knapp company, of which William Zeckendorf Sr. was the major owner.
Jul 8, 2015 · Freedomland U.S.A., an American history-themed amusement park in the East Bronx, was demolished 50 years ago this summer. But fond memories live on among Bronxites of a certain age, as do ...
Mar 5, 2018 · Visitors entered Freedomland’s facsimile of the United States on the East Coast and proceeded into Old New York where they saw storefronts like the Schering Apothecary, one of several corporate ...
Oct 12, 2024 · All images courtesy Thomas X. Casey. Visitors entered Freedomland’s facsimile of the United States on the East Coast and proceeded into Old New York where they saw storefronts like the Schering ...
Freedomland U.S.A. attempted to define the American Experience in its great display of American cities. In competing with the city of “Little Old New York,” there was “Old Chicago.”. In the “Old Chicago,”section of Freedomland U.S.A. there was a major attraction that simulated the history of the Great Chicago Fire that burned for ...
- Brian Kachejian
Sep 18, 2024 · And a pair of long-gone amusement parks and one short-lived theme park — they were ours. Two were in New York City: Rockaways’ Playland, in Rockaway Beach, Queens, and the American-history ...
Feb 1, 2017 · Here, on what had previously been empty marshland from a birdseye view you would see an 85-acre amusement park shaped like a miniature continental United States – buffered by a 120-acre parking lot. This was the site of Freedomland, U.S.A., ostensibly an East Coast answer to California’s Disneyland.
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