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By Kevin Hughes:  Learn about life by the bay as the  historic residents of Barnegat come alive through the use of images and photographs.  

By Gretchen F. Coyle & Deborah C. Whitcraft (Images of America):  Founded in 1874, Beach Haven was designed as one of the first summer seashore resorts for wealthy Philadelphians.  Beach Haven’s boardwalk was one and a quarter miles long.  A steamboat, connected with the Tuckerton Railroad, brought visitors to the island.

By Alfred T. Stokley:  Incorporated in 1875, Berkeley Township was settled along the Barnegat Bay shoreline, dotted with homesteads and fishermen's shanties.  The Central Railroad first brought summer tourists to the area for recreation in the late 19th century, and in the years to follow, many new attractions were established, including B.W. Sangor's lavish Royal Pines Hotel.  Edward Crabbe established the village of Double Trouble in 1903 for lumber and cranberry production, and Sutton's Pavilion became Bayville's first fishing camp in 1905.  Also in this era, George C. Crossly mined clay for terra-cotta products, using a narrow-gauge spur of the Pennsylvania Railroad.  In 1928, Rudy Korman opened his restaurant and picnic grove, soon known as Korman's Corner.  By the 1930s, Clover Cream Top Dairy was the largest in Bayville.  In 1932, Dino the Dinosaur was built for a Sinclair Service Station and became a landmark.  Historic Route 9 was used heavily through the middle of the 20th century, featuring roadside stands and tourist cabins.  Berkeley Township showcases these landmarks and the rich recreational and commercial history of this Ocean County community.  

By Eugene E. Donatiello & John G. Leavey:  In 1850, when the New Jersey Legislature created Ocean County, they also created Brick Township among a region of virgin woodlands.  The new township was named after its most prominent resident, Joseph W. Brick, the industrious and successful owner of Bergen Iron Works.  As his and other local industries expanded, more and more people began to call Brick their home.  Brick Township records these founders and the events and places that helped them shape our community.  By 1920, parts of the new township had declared their independence, and the remaining parts of Brick began to evolve into a resort community.  The summer tourists, farmers, home builders and shipbuilders, anglers, hunters, tavern and innkeepers, merchants, and others helped fashion Brick into an intimate but prosperous community.  Brick continued to be a quiet, rural, resort area into the 1950s, when the Garden State Parkway opened, and residential and commercial development created dramatic growth in year-round residents, and it became a thriving suburban community.  Brick Township captures scenes of life in Brick from 1850 to the 1950s and beyond; from the early European settlers to the suburbanites who now call Brick their home; from the thriving poultry industry to area resorts; from Joseph Brick to our friends and family who live among us today.  

By Gene Donatiello & John Leavey:  In 1850, the New Jersey Legislature created Ocean County and Brick Township, naming it for Joseph W. Brick, the industrious owner of Bergen Iron Works.  At the beginning of the 20th century, Brick Township was a rural community.  Up until the 1920s, postcards of the township were primarily architectural images.  Brick Township contains updated images of familiar names and places: Emma Havens Young, for whom an elementary school has been named; the very popular Red Lion Tavern, later called the Red Lion Inn; the progression of four bridges crossing Barnegat Bay to the peninsula area of Brick Township; and Traders Cove Marina as it looked in the 1950s when it was called Pleasure Cove Marina. There are postcards from summer camps, such as Camp NEJECHO and Metedeconk Summer Camp, and from summer resorts, such as Breton Woods, Riviera Beach, and Normandy Beach.