It is later sold to the Conklin family.ġ878-1881 – The resort grows as additional summer and year-round houses are built. Thomas Sherbourne, land owner of the entire south end of Beach Haven, builds the farmhouse that will eventually form the nucleus of the sprawling, three-story building on Liberty Avenue, now known as the “Beck Farm.” Streets were laid out, leveled, and graveled.ġ877 – The Magnolia House on Centre Street is established. It stood until 1943 when it was demolished due to non-payment of taxes. Holly buy land between South Street (now Engelside Avenue) and Amber Street to build the Engelside Hotel. It stands until 1967 and is now the site of Buckalews Restaurant.ġ876 – Robert Engle and his cousin Samuel, Quakers from the vicinity of Mt. Lloyd Jones builds the Beach Haven House at the end of Mud Hen Creek ( Dock Road). First two cottages are built on Second Street by Archelaus Pharo.Charles Parry, also president of the Philadelphia based Baldwin Locomotive Works builds the Parry House hotel on Centre Street.
Pharo’s daughter chooses the name, ‘Beach Haven” for the resort. Newly elected president Charles Parry presides over the first Commission meeting in Tuckerton.ġ874 – Beach Haven is officially founded when the state approves the charter.
A year later he builds a railroad spur from Tuckerton to Edge Cove on Little Egg Harbor for the convenience of passengers to sail across the bay.ġ873 – The Tuckerton & Long Beach Building, Land, and Improvement Association is incorporated and Pharo completes the transfer of his 666 acres to the Association for $6,666.66. Eventually this acreage becomes the community of Beach Haven. At the same time, this visionary developer buys 666 acres of Long Beach Island land for $243. Captain Tilton Fox buys the Harvey Cedar Life Saving Station and a year later, scows it down to Beach Haven on Mud Hen Creek and names it Hotel de Crab.ġ871 – Tuckerton businessman Archelaus Pharo successfully completes his branch railroad to Philadelphia providing this coastal community with a direct rail link to the big city. Life Saving Service instituted in Ocean County. These adventurous men visited sites north of Holgate looking for suitable ground and a natural creek that could be used to ease the transport of building materials.ġ871 – U.S. It was here that they began planning a nearby resort for their families. Wealthy Philadelphians along with men from Tuckerton and the vicinity around Mount Holly came for fishing and duck hunting. At the south end of the island (now Holgate), Captain Thomas Bond owned and operated a hotel called the Long Beach House. There was plenty of fresh surface water in the numerous bogs and ponds.ġ850 – Ocean County is created out of the southern half of Monmouth, by New Jersey Legislature. 1609 – Voyage of Captain Henrik Hudson on the Half Moon passes Long Beach Island.ġ640-1776 – The desolate, nearly treeless barrier island known in colonial times as Long Beach was of little use to any but sportsmen and those coastal farmers who allowed their cattle to roam the sand hills.
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