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Brigantine Castle was a popular funhouse and haunted house attraction by the beach in Brigantine, New Jersey. It was originally located at the corner of 14th Street and Brigantine Avenue. Constructed in 1976, it drew millions of visitors annually until it was damaged in 1982 in a storm.
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]
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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.
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.
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 ...
Nancy was an American sailing vessel, noted in sources as either a brig or a brigantine, that was chartered to transport war supplies during the American Revolutionary War. After learning that independence had been declared, her captain, according to his daughter, raised the first American flag in a foreign port.
Port side and starboard side respectively refer to the left and right sides of the vessel, when aboard and facing the bow. The port and starboard sides of the vessel always refer to the same portion of the vessel's structure, and do not depend on the position of someone aboard the vessel.