West Long Branch Revisited

West Long Branch Revisited is the long awaited follow up volume to Helen-Chantal Pike s first pictorial narrative. Here she tells the stories of the well-landscaped properties, storied summer cottages, and families who gave the borough its distinctive country character. Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the fertile farmland of New Jersey s coastal plain, West Long Branch has always had a town-and-country personality. It was tilled by the descendants of some of the original settlers into the early 20th century, and later it developed a distinct commercial hub and an industrial area. Concurrently, prosperous New Yorkers originally drawn to cosmopolitan Long Branch developed bucolic vacation homes in this small town. They created a vibrant community that can still be found today. Following World War II and the rise in post-secondary educational opportunities, various cottages were converted to classrooms as West Long Branch evolved into the town-and-gown community it is today."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 02/07/2007
ISBN: 9780738549033
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.54w x 0.35d