A nice Camps Bay Beach image:
Image from page 14 of “Forty beaches, highland and water resorts” (1915)
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Identifier: fortybeacheshigh00penn
Title: Forty beaches, highland and water resorts
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania railroad company. [from old catalog]
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: [Philadelphia?
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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walked hither for anall-day frolic on the beach and a bath in the ocean waves. Many who came for the wash day, came back later to buildmodest cottages in which to spend the entire heated term andto-day there is a good sized town right on the beach front,with wide streets bordered with shade trees and lined withattractive homes and hotels. The beach is the finest for bathing north of Barnegat Inletand the Manasquan River, only a short distance south, affordsfine fishing and boating. Good driving roads lead back intothe country, notably to Lakewood and Allaire. The Guard is in camp nearly the whole of July and August,different commands occupying the quarters for stated inter-vals. The shooting contests on the fine Rifle Range are alwaysa source of interest to residents of Sea Girt as well as to mem-bers of the Guard and shots all over the country. Theparade ground at Sea Girt is one of the finest in the country. (For list of hotels, see pages .^0-.^3. For fares, see pages 34-37.) -W 14
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I JlNT PLEASANT MANASQUAN, N. J. Just south of Sea Girt, the Manasquan River, a short tide- water stream, joins the ocean through Manasquan Inlet, themost northern of the many breaks in the beach line which markthe southern half of New Jerseys coast. Back some distance from the ocean on this river is the quaintold town of Manasquan, one of the earliest settlements in NewJersey and a most delightful summer home for the man or womanwho delights in still water boating, bathing, fishing and ramblesin the woods. Mansaquan has none of the earmarks of the resort town. Itis a simple country village, or rather town, whose wide streetsare bordered with fine old trees that meet in a green arch duringthe summer; whose hotels and cottages are homes ratherthan temporary resting places, and which offers in the river andthe woods every charm of the Natural Life. It is but a short ride by train or motor car from Manasquanto the fishing grounds of Barnegat Bay, while the fine beach atSea Girt is just a
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