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Somers Point was designated as a port of entry in 1791 and remained one until it was abolished in 1915. [29] [30] By the 1830s, when Somers Point became part of Atlantic County, it was a popular summer resort with several boarding houses. [31] Panoramic map of "Somers-Point" with list of landmarks and images of several inset (1925)
The highway extends 9.49 miles (15.27 km) from Shore Road on the boundary of Linwood and Somers Point to Somers Point-Mays Landing Road (CR 559) in Hamilton Township. The road travels through the following municipalities (from South to North): Linwood (Atlantic County) Egg Harbor Township; Hamilton Township (Atlantic County) Major intersections
With more people moving to the area in the late 1800s into the early 1900s, several municipalities were created in short succession – Margate City (then called South Atlantic City) in 1885, Somers Point in 1886, Pleasantville and Linwood in 1889, Brigantine in 1890, Longport in 1898, Ventnor in 1903, Northfield and Port Republic in 1905, and ...
The town center CDP has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km 2), all land. The town's highest point, Bald Mountain, at 1,121 feet (342 m) is the highest point along the Connecticut River Valley in Connecticut. The rounded hill summit was recently purchased by the town and can be seen for many miles around.
This section of the route formerly included the Somers Point Circle, now a traffic light, where Route 52 intersects County Route 559 (CR 559) and CR 585. Route 52 was originally designated on June 1, 1937 to run from the Somers Point Circle northwest to Mays Landing. This routing never came about and in 1953, Route 52 was designated onto its ...
Its frequency was around 17 kHz, which made its wavelength around 17,500 meters. The station used a huge 5,000-foot-long (1,500 m) antenna supported by eight 400-foot (120 m) tall steel masts, similar to the AT&T long wave telephone transmitter at RCA's Rocky Point, Long Island, transmitter facility.
Route 152 originates as an alignment of County Route 20, which ran along the entire alignment of Route 152 from Somers Point to Longport. The state took over CR 20 in 1969, designating the route as Route 152 in relation to the Route 52 designation further south. In 1988, the former bridge over the Broad Thoroughfare was demolished and replaced ...
Somers is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the primary village in the town of Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 United States census , the Somers CDP had a population of 1,990, [ 4 ] out of 10,255 in the town of Somers.