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Did you know this about Island Beach State Park?
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In 2017, photos of Governor Chris Christie and his family on the closed Island Beach State Park beach during a government shutdown went viral and became national news.
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Island Beach became a state park in 1959 after New Jersey purchased the land from the Phipps estate for $2.75 million—a bargain for 10 miles of pristine barrier island.
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Henry Phipps, who planned to develop Island Beach, was Andrew Carnegie's business partner in U.S. Steel. His estate hunting lodge still stands in the park as the Aeolium nature center.
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The 1929 stock market crash inadvertently saved Island Beach State Park—developer Henry Phipps had plans for a resort community, but went bankrupt before building.
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