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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 19, 2024 · Rare color photos of Freedomland U.S.A. captured views of the short-lived but well remembered Bronx amusement park, which was replaced by Co-op City in the '60s.
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...
Feb 7, 2020 · Those dark rides—the recreation of the San Francisco Earthquake, a deep down trip into a mine cave, a jolly time with buccaneers and a lifelike experience of spinning in a tornado—and several other attractions at Freedomland were created by Arrow Development of Mountain View, California.
Freedomland U.S.A. - The World's Largest Entertainment Center, Bronx, New York. 12,387 likes · 295 talking about this. American history theme park in The Bronx 1960-1964
Jan 5, 2020 · Freedomland U.S.A. was an American history theme park where guests experienced Old Chicago as it burned to the ground, dodged cannon fire during a wagon ride through a Civil War battlefield and explored the Northwest Passage, as did Lewis and Clark, on a bull boat.
Conveniently located in the Baychester section of the Bronx, off the New England Thruway and Hutchinson Parkway, Freedomland U.S.A. was New York’s brilliant answer to California’s Disneyland.
May 12, 2020 · The new theme park was dubbed the “Disneyland of the East” and “The World’s Largest Entertainment Center.” Freedomland provided thousands of jobs for Bronx residents and for others throughout the city, Westchester County and Long Island.
Mar 5, 2018 · Built in the marshlands and coastal area along the Hutchinson River, Freedomland was a short lived amusement park with America as its theme. It billed itself as the world’s largest entertainment center before changing that to world’s largest outdoor family entertainment center but regardless of what it called itself, some say it was doomed ...
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.
