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The Beach Haven Historic District is a historic district in Beach Haven, Ocean County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1983 for its significance in architecture and history as a beach-front resort during the 19th century. [ 4] The district boundary was increased on November 19, 2014.
The canals proposed by Wright were unsuccessful in making the lands south of Lake Okeechobee fulfill the promises made by real estate developers to local farmers. The winter of 1922 was unseasonably wet and the region was underwater. The town of Moore Haven received 46 inches (1,200 mm) of rain in six weeks in 1924. [52]
Beach Haven, known as the "Queen City," [24] is a late 19th-century beachfront resort originally established in 1873 to house wealthy summer residents from Philadelphia. . Although some of the major structures, including several hotels and a boardwalk, were lost to storms in the 1940s including the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, [25] a large portion of the town retains its Victorian and ...
Coordinates: 39.5609°N 74.2371°W. Hotel and tennis court. Engleside Hotel. Engleside Hotel was one of the most decorative and beautiful Victorian hotels that once stood on Engleside Avenue in Beach Haven (located on the southern end of Long Beach Island), New Jersey, United States. It was completed by the start of the 1876 summer season ...
Beach Haven West is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [9] constituting a part of the Jersey Shore community of Stafford Township, in southern Ocean County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey. [10][11][12] As of the 2020 United States census, the CDP's population was 4,143, [3] an increase of 247 (+6.3%) from the ...
NRHP reference No. 98000714 [1] Added to NRHP. June 26, 1998. The Moore Haven Residential Historic District is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on June 26, 1998) located in Moore Haven, Florida. The district is bounded by Avenue J to Avenue M and 1st to 5th Streets. It contains 40 historic buildings.
The Caloosahatchee River is a river on the southwest Gulf Coast of Florida in the United States, approximately 67 miles (108 km) long. [1] It drains rural areas on the northern edge of the Everglades, east of Fort Myers. An important link in the Okeechobee Waterway, a manmade inland waterway system of southern Florida, the river forms a tidal ...
The son of writer Clara Jessup Moore, and businessman Bloomfield Haines Moore (1819–1878), he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard University in 1873. He traveled in nearly every part of Europe, Asia Minor, and Egypt; he crossed the Andes and went down the Amazon River in 1876, and made a trip around the world in 1878–79, before returning home when his father died in 1878.