📜Historical Events1870s
Did you know this about Ocean City?
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Did You Know?
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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More Historical Events
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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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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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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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