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Brigantine Island is a barrier island along the Atlantic Ocean between Brigantine Inlet on the northeast, and Absecon Inlet on the southwest. The former Quarters Inlet originally separated Brigantine Island from Peters Beach on the southwest, but through sand deposition Brigantine Island has extended its length and enclosed Peters Beach; Quarters Inlet is now closed.
Brigantine (or simply The Island) is a city in Atlantic County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 7,716, [12] a decrease of 1,734 (−18.3%) from the 2010 census count of 9,450, [22] [23] which in turn reflected a decline of 3,144 (−25.0%) from the 12,594 counted in the 2000 census. [24]
Brigantine Inlet, Old, formerly through Brigantine Beach, on the Atlantic, now closed. [1] Brigantine Inlet was described in 1878, viz., Brigantine Inlet is at the north part of Brigantine Beach, and separates it from Little Beach. This is an unimportant inlet, narrow, and having only about five feet of water on its bar.
The portion of beach thus separated from Short Beach has since been known as Little Beach, and lies between the present inlet and Brigantine Inlet. The old inlet, once the best along the coast, is said to have been from one to two miles wide, as recently as 1848, and was navigable for the smaller-sized coasters until within ten or twelve years.
Peters Beach is a small sandhill island, of only a few acres, lying inside of Brigantine Beach and near Absecon Inlet. Brigantine Beach has evidently made outside of it in the course of many years, and inclosed it, as Long Beach has more recently done with Short Beach. In Gordon's map, 1828, Peters Beach is represented as lying between Quarter ...
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Despite this, Route S4A was never completed between Brigantine and Little Beach, and the portion of the road that existed in Ocean County was removed from the state highway system by 1941. In 1945, Route S56 was proposed to run from Atlantic City to Brigantine along Brigantine Boulevard. Route 87 was created on its current alignment in 1953 as ...
The bridges have been locally known as the Brigantine Causeway, [8] the Absecon Inlet Bridge, the Brigantine Boulevard Bridge and the Route 87 bridge. The 1972 bridge is designated as the Vincent S. Haneman Memorial Bridge, [ 9 ] in honor of Vincent S. Haneman , an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1960 to 1971 who was a ...