📜Historical Events1920s
Did you know this about the Jersey Shore?
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Did You Know?
During Prohibition, the Jersey Shore was a hotbed for rum runners. Ships anchored just outside the 3-mile limit while speedboats made nighttime deliveries to shore.
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German U-boats sank over 100 ships off the Jersey Shore during WWII. Debris from the SS Morro Castle, torpedoed near Long Beach Island, still lies on the ocean floor.
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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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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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