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...
Author: Greg Kelly
Long Branch: Grand Hotels of Past
Magnificent seashore dwellings from a city’s glory days I’m endlessly fascinated by the magnificent seashore hotels that sprawled along the Long Branch shoreline. These...
“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...
Find Your Monmouth Beach Connection …
Find You or Yours (click on the image to enlarge) … This 1974 Monmouth Beach Recreation Department photo was taken on Raccoon Island. It...
MB Commissioners Through the Years
The first borough commissioner I ever knew well was Sidney B. Johnson. No surprise there — he was a Monmouth Beach icon. Those familiar...
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...
MB Borough Hall — History & Photos
The stately building on the southwest corner of Beach Road and Willow Avenue serves as the heartbeat of municipal government — the Monmouth Beach...
Local Railroads: SB • MB • LB
For Gilded Age elites to make a remote seashore region (Sea Bright, Monmouth Beach and parts of Long Branch) into an excliusive summer resort,...
Monmouth Beach Aerial Images
Enjoy some shore heights … Have a look at more than 100 interesting aerial images from around Monmouth Beach — past and present:
Mihm Family: River Rulers
The Shrewsbury River has played a major role in the social and commercial development of Monmouth Beach. In the early years, it was a...
Octagon Hotel — Sea Bright’s Grandest
Few more magnificent structures have ever graced the Jersey Shore. The Octagon Hotel in Sea Bright began as a private cottage built by Mifflin...
Elberon: Once a “Playland of Millionaires”
* * * * * Elberon is “a veritable Eden … wide streets unmarred by wires, perfect hedges and lawns, and...
Long Branch and the Presidency
Long Branch Arts & Cultural Center presents: “Grant’s 200th Birthday Celebration” — thru May 18 MORE INFO Although seven American chief executives have visited...
Channel Club Tower: Shrewsbury’s Sentinel
I grew up literally in its shadow — watching a tower and massive steel and concrete auto garage fill the large riverfront acreage we...
MB Police Department Images …
The borough’s true blue … The Monmouth Beach Police Department dates back to April 1906 with the appointment of a police committee by the...
Monmouth Beach “Yankees”
Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and other New York Yankee baseball greats hanging out in Monmouth Beach? Yes, it happened. Most shore area...
