However, locals hated the name, finding it somewhat sleazy. The residents of Carolina Beach and Kure Beach especially were unwilling to give up their individual community names.
The town of Carolina Beach even went so far as to put the name of "Pleasure Island" on a ballot and have a vote on it. Carolina Beach voted overwhelmingly against it.
However, the Chamber and some others continue to use the name Pleasure Island for the area as being convenient to describe the resort area.
Our society, the federal Point Historical Society Association continues to use the historical name for the area which includes everything north of Snow's Cut to Monkey Junction to Fort Fisher, including Myrtle Grove, Masonboro, The Cape, Seabreeze, Carolina Beach, (Wilmington Beach and Hanby Beach were incorporated into the towns of Carolina Beach and Kure Beach in the 1990s) Kure Beach and Fort Fisher.
--Old B-Runner
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