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Sea Bright: Boro of Beach Clubs

It’s the ultimate beach town. Folks have been coming to Sea Bright for sea, sand and sun for over a century. Young and old,...

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A Building Grows in Sea Bright …

“The Break” coming to “The Neighborhood” The first residential high-rise in downtown Sea Bright is coming together smartly (the image below is a model)....

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Long Branch: Key to the City

How old is Long Branch? It goes all the way back to 1668. According to local folklore, in 1665 five associates from the original...

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Monmouth Beach Golf Club

Monmouth Beach was likely home to the first formal golf course on the Jersey Shore.* Just before the turn of the century, investors purchased...

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Vivian Johnson: Shore Nightclub Queen

She was the fashionable female contingent of the borough’s most famous political family. Vivian Johnson, born in March 1901, was a trend-setter and accomplished...

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Long Branch and the Presidency

*    *    *    *    * Although seven American chief executives have visited Long Branch — this 19th Century’s “Resort of Presidents” —...

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Doctoring by the River …

Hospitals were sacred territory to my physician-dad. Life transforming and medically heroic at their best; clean and caring at a minimum. He spent the...

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Monmouth Beach — “Men of Honor”

They were a couple of rocks in the sturdy foundation of what became Monmouth Beach — Garrett White and Nelson Lockwood. Both men exhibited...

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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...

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MB Bathing Pavilion History

The concept of a borough-owned public bathing facility became a reality in May 1921 when the Monmouth Beach Borough Council appropriated $6,800 to build...

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Mihm Family: River Rulers

The Shrewsbury River has played an important role in the social and commercial development of Monmouth Beach. In the early years, it was a...

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Looking at the LBPD

Long Branch Police Department service dates back to a Civil War Hero … Like most law enforcement agencies — they’ve been both admired and...

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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...

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