Avalon on the Seven Mile Beach
Subtitle: a history of the geographical borough, including related developments on the Seven Mile Beach
By: Robert L. Penrose.
Publisher: R.L. Penrose
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Avalon, NJ?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780979229602
Subjects: Avalon (N.J.) -- History; Seven Mile Beach Island (N.J.) -- History; Cape May County (N.J.) -- History, Local
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 515) and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning; title: Leaming's Beach; title: Tatham's Beach; title: The Seven Mile Beach Company; title: Avalon in 1888 : a town is born; title: The Avalon Beach Improvement Company; title: The fourth year, 1890; title: The Stone Harbor Improvement Company; title: The railroad; title: The Borough of Avalon; title: Beach Creek; title: Leaming; title: 1893; title: The forest and the flowers; title: The next dozen years; title: A new century; title: The enigma of John Leaming et ux; title: The Oceanside Realty Company; title: The lagoons; title: A familiar Avalon emerges; title: A drive road to the mainland; title: The boardwalk; title: A new railroad; title: almost; title: A new school (and other developments); title: The Roaring Twenties; title: The Great Depression; title: World War II and Post Depression Avalon; title: "Old Avalon" grows up; title: Avalon Beach Patrol; title: Flight from the inlet; title: The March 1962 storm; title: "New" Avalon; title: The North Side Channel; title: Modern Avalon emerges; title: Now 'n them : a pictorial of old and new; title: Appendix A. Additional 1888 news clippings; title: Appendix B. The Button/McIlvain houses; title: Appendix C. The lifeguards.