Memorable House, Memorable Families
Toy King … Confederate Yankee … Knighted Doctor … Master Pattern Maker all under one roof — If you’re even moderately familiar with Monmouth...
Author: Greg Kelly
Elmer Fudd in Monmouth Beach
While researching Monmouth Beach history, I’m often amazed by the caliber of people who have called this small seashore community home. One former borough...
Sea Bright’s Shore Palaces
Sea Bright’s magnificent 19th century oceanfront mansions … A classic part of town heritage were the massive “cottages” — seashore castles made of wood...
Oldest Pharmacy in Long Branch
Pharmacist, Doctor, Mayor — All in North End The city’s longest operating pharmacy was started in North Long Branch more than 125 years ago....
Max’s Bar & Grill — #1 in Long Branch
The city’s oldest eating establishment … So the food tale is … Max Altman opened the “first refreshment stand of any description” in Summer...
Monmouth Beach “Yankees”
Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra and other New York Yankee baseball greats hanging out in Monmouth Beach? Yes, it happened. Most shore area...
Doctoring by the River …
Hospitals were sacred territory to my physician-father. Life transforming and medically heroic at their best; clean and caring at a minimum. He spent the...
Sea Bright Education History
Learning in the Past … With few dollars and even fewer students, Sea Bright public education efforts started humbly. Total annual town spending on...
MB Cultural Center: Ordeal & Triumph
It has survived fires and floods. Withstood decades of storms, salt air and wicked winds. Abandoned, it sat rotting for eight years — unused...
George Sheehan: “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...
Happy Birthday! — Monmouth Beach
Happy 120th Birthday! — Borough of Monmouth Beach, NJ On March 9, 1906, Monmouth Beach was officially incorporated as an independent borough. Although known...
Booth-Full of Brothers
On Long Branch and a presidential assassin … John Wilkes Booth’s place in American infamy is secure forever. History records that JWB certainly visited...
Eliakim Wardell: Monmouth Beach Founder
Monmouth Beach residents have long known they live in near paradise — all beginning as “Wardell’s Beach” some 350+ years ago. The founder and...
MBPD: A History of Serving & Protecting
Good Guys in Blue … A main reason why Monmouth Beach is such an outstanding community is because residents trust that they live in...
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...
Monmouth Beach Railroad Times …
Many seasoned borough residents know that a train once ran through town. Monmouth Beach also had a railroad station — two in fact. The...
