“Galilee” of Monmouth Beach Images
The borough area known as “Galilee” — located roughly from Central Road to the Sea Bright border — is a spot rich in history...
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Images of Long Branch …
Dedicated to Tom Booth of Long Branch (1951-2019). Rich in historic imagery, as a place offering shore sun and fun Long Branch has few...
Monmouth Beach Life Photo Collection
Sea Bright, Long Branch, Sandy Hook and Highland Beach Images too. Dig in … I’ve sought to make this a visually pleasing website. One...
Images of Sea Bright …
Classic photos of a seaside borough … (Page dedicated to the Sea Bright Historical Society) Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright have a lot in...
Galilee Fishermen: “Harvesting the Sea”
Today, few people remember and even fewer know that Monmouth Beach was once a thriving commercial fishing village. While many local anglers still regularly...
Highland Beach — Grand Playground of the Past
“Celebrating the Golden Age of the Jersey Shore” Originally part of “Wardell’s Beach,” the beginnings of Highland Beach as an iconic seashore resort date...
Monmouth Beach Club Images
The Monmouth Beach Bath & Tennis Club (known popularly as “The Club”) rests along Ocean Avenue. This coastal building is perhaps the definitive piece...
Miscellaneous Monmouth Beach
Maps, letters, flyers, pictures, stories, ads, documents, signs, odd and unusual images of Monmouth Beach. I claim no ownership of the images — I...
“The Reservation” — Long Branch’s Cottage Colony
By Michael Sheehan Visitors to Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park in the City of Long Branch may notice a house standing alone near the north...
Broadway: Where Long Branch Did Business
“Broadway Means Business” First mapped in 1835, first paved in 1891 — Broadway was where Long Branch conducted commerce. Historically, the road was also...
Ditchdiggers, Daughters, and Doctors
All my life I’ve admired the medical profession. My physician-father from Monmouth Beach sort of insisted. Turns out it’s pretty easy — this I...
Long Branch Schools Through the Years
City schools through the years … The ultimate historical account of Long Branch — the 1940 bio-book Entertaining a Nation — gives “praise to...
Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge Images
Images of a Shore Crossing … Since the first bridge opened in December 1872, a total of four have connected northern Sea Bright with...
Legend of Long Branch …
Beginnings of a great city — How far back does Long Branch go? Try May 1668. According to local folklore, five associates of the...
Images of Sandy Hook …
It has 500 years of history — going back to the 1520s when Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to explore our “Jersey...
Long Branch: Grand Hotels of Past
Magnificent seashore dwellings from a city’s glory days I’m fascinated by the magnificent seashore hotels that sprawled along the Long Branch shoreline. Here are...
George Sheehan: Inspiration from “The Running Doc”
My physician-father called him a “true genius.” Dad also said that the two men practiced medicine together in Red Bank, NJ for the better...
