Memorable House, Memorable Families
Toy King … Confederate Yankee … Knighted Doctor … Master Dress Designer lived there — If you’re even moderately knowledgeable about Monmouth Beach history,...
Author: Greg Kelly
Monmouth Beach Life Photo Collection
Digital Discovery: Facts & Photos on Sea Bright, Long Branch, and Sandy Hook … I’ve sought to make this a pleasing and positive website....
Highland Beach — Playground Past
“Sandy Hook’s historic resort paradise” The beginning of Highland Beach as a seashore resort dates back to the “Gilded Age.” This iconic shore location...
“Wooden Palaces” of Monmouth Beach
Spectacular seashore mansions … One way the wealthy like to flex is through the building of huge houses. A fetching feature of Monmouth Beach...
Sea Bright Civics …
Forever complicated, Sea Bright — in fact, has two birthdays. The first official gathering to incorporate “the borough Seabright” took place in February 1887...
After Byron . . . Our Beach Clubs
Shoreline owner before today’s MBBP and MB Club … Oliver Byron is a hard act to follow. In addition to being hailed as a...
Monmouth Beach — “Gold Heroes”
They were a couple of rocks in the sturdy foundation of what became Monmouth Beach — Garrett White and Nelson Lockwood. Both men exhibited...
Monmouth Beach Golf Club
Monmouth Beach was very likely home to the first formal golf course on the Jersey Shore.* Just before the turn of the 20th century,...
Long Branch and the Presidency
Although seven United States chief executives visited Long Branch — the 19th Century’s “Resort of Presidents” — but I only dug deeper on two:...
Images of Sea Bright …
Classic photos of a seaside borough … Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach have a lot in common. So much in fact — for about...
Long Branch Pier & Boardwalk History
Witness to the incineration of a city landmark … It had an aura and electricity all its own. Today, few people know, and even...
First Residents: The Lenape
12,000 Years of Jersey Shore History … There are people who called our New Jersey coastal area home long before we did — the...
Hazard — “Hospital with a Heart”
E.C. Hazard, MD & his Hospital … This forgotten city healthcare institution — known as the “Hospital with a Heart” – was opened in...
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 Stadium: Cars & Canines
It’s difficult to narrow down a true name? It opened as Ocean Park in 1934 and closed as Long Branch Stadium in 1957. During...
“Bishop” of Sea Bright
Sea Bright Characters: My physician-father had his share of “famous patients.” Including one reputed New Jersey mobster boss, who when asked by dad what...
