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Towns of Point Pleasant & Point Pleasant Beach, State Route 88 at County Road 549, Point Pleasant, Ocean County, NJ
LocationState Route 88 at County Road 549,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS NJ-1012
Building/structure dates:
1870
Part of building/structure is in Point Pleasant Beach, Ocean County, NJ.
Significance: Point Pleasant's strategic railroad location at the junction of the major New York and Philadelphia lines, made it the ideal location for resort development. Prior to its resort development, Point Pleasant was an established commercial community, supporting fishing, ship building and sawmill industries. Point Pleasant and Point Pleasant Beach are among the handful of places on the Jersey shore which have withstood changes in American life that have made other historic places obsolete or artificial.
Subjects
Cities & Towns
Related Names
Point Pleasant Land Company
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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