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At the 1897 Baby Parade in Asbury Park, one of the prizes was for “Heaviest Boy Under One Year of Age.” |
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In 1906, the Lyric Hall and Garden in Asbury Park claimed to be “the largest Afro-American Resort in America.” |
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At Celia Brown’s restaurant in South Belmar in the 1930s and 1940s, customers would stay in their automobiles and a ‘carhop’ would serve them. |
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President James Garfield died in Elberon in 1881 after he was shot in Washington by Charles Guiteau, a deranged office-seeker. |
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Wilbur Wright attended a competitive air show held in Interlaken in 1910. |
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In the 1860s, the American Hotel in Long Branch offered “stale bread” on the breakfast menu. |
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William McKinley was one of the seven U.S. presidents who worshipped at St. James Chapel in Long Branch. |
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The Monmouth Beach Life-Saving Station, now the town’s Cultural Center, was built in 1857, more than a decade before the town was developed. |
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Organized in 1869, the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association divided Ocean Grove into lots that were leased to members for their tents. |
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The racetrack Monmouth Park was closed between 1893 and 1946 as a consequence of anti-gambling legislation. |
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Red Bank photographer Charles R.D. Foxwell, who sold thousands of picture postcards of Monmouth County in the early 1900s, became a Justice of the Peace. |
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In September 1934, after a catastrophic fire, the luxury liner SS Morro Castle ran aground at Asbury Park. |
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Built in 1872, the first draw bridge from Highlands to Sea Bright got stuck in the open position from 1875 to 1878 after being hit by a schooner. |
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Sea Bright was formerly named after a Sephardic Hebrew term, “Nauvoo,” which means “beautiful or pleasant place.” |
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In 1853, Commodore Robert Field Stockton of Princeton purchased a seaside farm he called, “Seagirt,” after which the town Sea Girt was named. |
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The Sandy Hook Lighthouse, completed in 1764, is the oldest operating lighthouse in the United States. |
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The Lake House hotel in Spring Lake, which opened in 1877, was formerly the Public Comfort Building at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. |
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The Aida Trumpet Quartet, four women dressed in American flags, played at President Taft’s Reception at the Ocean Grove Auditorium on August 15, 1911 |
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Southern black migrants to Monmouth County formed churches that became centers for civil rights advocacy, such as St. Stephen A.M.E. Zion, founded in 1878 in Asbury Park. |
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Turkish Trophy Bathing Beauty Cards (1902) depicted idealized women on cards named “Asbury Park,” “Long Branch,” “Ocean Grove,” et al. to promote tobacco sales. |
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Both William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt campaigned in Red Bank for the Republican presidential nomination in 1912. |
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“Hot Dog Bob’s” was one of fifty reasons to love Keyport, stated Bob Cullinane in the Asbury Park Press in 1999. |
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According to the 1920 Census, the only Chinese in Long Branch were six laundrymen. |
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In 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson vacationed at the Union House in what is now Brielle (formerly Squan), but did not write Treasure Island there. |
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Using an antenna tower built at Twin Lights in 1899, Gugliemo Marconi first demonstrated wireless telegraphy in the United States. |
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