📜Historical Events1870s
Did you know this about Beach Haven?
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Did You Know?
Beach Haven's Engleside Inn was a favorite of wealthy Philadelphians in the late 1800s, when the town was only accessible by boat from Tuckerton.
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From the 1920s-1960s, Bradley Beach was known as "Chinatown by the Sea" and had the largest Chinese-American summer community on the East Coast.
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In 1881, locals built a 5/8-mile railroad spur overnight to bring the dying President Garfield to the shore in hopes the sea air would help him recover.
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Ocean City's boardwalk has never allowed the sale of alcohol or tobacco, maintaining the town's founding Methodist values since 1879.
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