Local Railroads: MB • LB • SB
For Gilded Age elites to make a remote seashore region (Sea Bright, Monmouth Beach and parts of Long Branch) into an exclusive summer resort,...
Author: Greg Kelly
Long Branch: Keys to the City
How old is Long Branch? It goes all the way back to May 1668. According to local folklore, five associates of the original Monmouth...
The Trials of Dr. Carl Coppolino
While exploring my physician-father’s medical book collection at our home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice of Hypnosis in Anesthesiology...
Monmouth County’s Finest Young Minds …
Consider Our Wonderful Career Academies … With another new school year in session, I highly recommend that local parents and students look into our...
Superstorm Sandy — 10 Years After
It’s been a decade since the MB • LB • SB area felt the awful wrath of nature. A storm that shook our three...
Broadway: More Than Business
Legendary Road Awaits New Vision First mapped in 1835, first paved in 1891 — Broadway was where Long Branch did commerce. Historically, the road...
Long Branch City Clerks: Some History
“A direct link between residents and their local government.” —Long Branch Daily Record The first Long Branch municipal clerk was R. Jerome Van Brunt,...
Nauvoo — Start of Sea Bright
Sea Bright beginnings … It was first known as “Nauvoo” (Hebrew for “pleasant place”). And the shore area’s very first settlers — Nathan Woolley,...
Sea Bright … Shore Shots
Technically, the borough is a barrier beach — narrow and long. Sea Bright, the land separating the Atlantic Ocean from the Shrewsbury River, is...
Long Branch Hotels: Grand Past
Magnificent seashore lodgings from a city’s glory days I’m endlessly fascinated by the magnificent seashore hotels that sprawled along the Long Branch coastline. These...
Elmer Fudd in Monmouth Beach
While researching Monmouth Beach history, I’m sometimes amazed by the caliber of people who have called this small community home. One former borough resident...
Peninsula House: Shore Splendor at Sea Bright
Known by locals as the “P House” — the iconic seashore structure dates back to Sea Bright’s late 19th century resort glory days. The...
Monmouth Beach History Archive
Here’s your chance to do some binge-reading about Monmouth Beach history — pick a link and have a look: • MB Founding Father — HERE...
North Long Branch: Keeping Cool
It was known as “Fishtown” in Entertaining a Nation and marked as “Atlanticville” on an 1873 F.W. Beers map. I remember locals calling it...
Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge Images
Photos of a shore crossing … Since the first bridge was opened in December 1872, a total of four have connected northern Sea Bright...
Long Branch and the Presidency
Although seven American chief executives have visited Long Branch, I only dug deep on two: Presidents Grant and Garfield. Ulysses S. Grant: 18th American...
