The Spectacular History of the Jersey Shore

09/05/2025

Today...years ago
Not Brigantine, but amazing.

08/29/2025

The 1916 shark attacks along Monmouth's shore are well known. But what happened immediately afterward? This 1916 broadside for Keansburg answers the question. After the final attack on July 12 (the first attack that summer was on July 1), towns along the shore took measures to assure potential visitors that bathing and swimming were safe. Within a week of the final attack, towns including Atlantic Highlands and Keansburg had installed steel mesh "shark proof" netting. Hotels took out advertisements in local papers, emphasizing the netting to ease fears of potential visitors. The mesh fencing was removed after the summer season but was apparently not reinstalled the following year.

08/22/2025

12/08/2024

Vintage photo of the Thomas Edison Memorial Bridge • Perth Amboy, NJ!

11/12/2024

High Point train station on Long Beach Island with both locomotives of the Manahawkin and Long Beach Transportation company. The Yellowjacket on the left number 1 0-4-4t and number 2 4-4-0 bought from the Pennsylvania railroad

10/27/2024

07/29/2024

07/17/2024

Hereford's Lighthouse Keeper Ferdinand Heizman on sled on a frozen solid Hereford Inlet • Circa 1920s!

📸 Steve Murray collection

07/04/2024

Detroit Publishing Co, P. At Atlantic City. Atlantic City New Jersey United States, None. [Between 1901 and 1906] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016798926/. (colorized)

07/02/2024

Cape May, two women on the beach
Photograph from a series of Lammot du Pont's (1831-1884) family group in Cape May, New Jersey, ca. 1887-1888.
https://digital.hagley.org/AVD_1969002_047_021

05/13/2024

Dune Drive in Avalon, initially named Second Ave., when it was first cut through. This view is the intersection of 22nd and Dune back in 1889.