Shorelands of Monmouth Beach
History & Photos … The borough’s Shorelands section started as a Gilded Age golf course that grew into a close-knit and comfortable community. Mostly,...
Author: Greg Kelly
Sheila Marie (Kelly) Sharemet, 1956-2025 — RIP
☘️ A superb Irish gal leaves us on St. Patrick’s Day … Sheila Marie (Kelly) Sharemet — strong in mind, body and soul —...
Monmouth Beach & USA — Celebrate ’76
MB-USA Bicentennial Celebration — 50 Years Ago … As the borough of Monmouth Beach marks the nation’s 250th birthday with a grand celebration —...
“The Reservation” — Long Branch’s Cottage Colony
By Michael Sheehan Going Back 125 Summers … It’s an amusing tale about a forgotten era in city life. Visitors to the popular Seven...
West End Cottages
They were a fabulous architectural representation of Long Branch at the apex of its Glided Age glory — the West End Cottages. The magnificent...
Monmouth Beach From the Sky …
Aerial images of the borough … Have look at these aerial images from around Monmouth Beach — past and present. The seashore community is...
Images from “Galilee” …
The Monmouth Beach area known as “Galilee” — located roughly from Central Road to the Sea Bright border — is a borough coastal spot...
Mule Barn — New Sandy Hook Rations
And some Hook eats history … Any reason to visit Sandy Hook is a worthwhile one. Now it’s even better. One of the peninsula’s...
Normandie Hotel — Sea Bright Palace
The magnificent Normandie-by-the-Sea Hotel in Sea Bright was “exclusive and expensive” in its all-too-brief prime. It had a lot to live up to. The...
Green Inn — Galilee Glamor
Built by a “Millionaire Sportsman” … The wealthy founders of “Monmouth Beach” in the early 1870s were determined to avoid the “hotel crowd” scene...
North Long Branch: Keeping Cool
It was called “Fishtown” in Entertaining a Nation and marked as “Atlanticville” on a F.W. Beers map from 1873. Many locals still call it...
America’s Best Beaches for ’26
Nothing too close … that’s good! He’s known popularly as “Dr. Beach.” Director of the Florida International University Laboratory for Coastal Research in Miami,...
Sea Bright Railroad Images …
Train Times in Sea Bright … Also, how the railroad nearly killed a jet age pioneer. The railroad played an important role in Sea...
Fine Art in Monmouth Beach
A grand glance of old Monmouth Beach … She is the borough’s “artist-in-residence” — Gail H. Gannon — now in perpetuity upon her passing...
Long Branch Railroad Images …
The city’s train system … still going today At its peak — according to a June 1908 Long Branch Daily Record report — the...
Nauvoo — Start of Sea Bright
Birth of a beachtown … It was first called “Nauvoo.” The area’s original settlers — Nathan Woolley, William Giles, and Johnty Smith — probably...
