📜Historical Events1920s
Did you know this about Island Beach State Park?
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Did You Know?
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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Island Beach State Park is so popular that it fills to capacity and closes to new vehicles almost every summer weekend by 9-10 AM. Rangers turn away thousands of cars each season.
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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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Island Beach State Park hosts one of the densest osprey nesting populations in New Jersey, with over 50 active nests along its 10-mile stretch.
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