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LONG BRANCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 974 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LONG See also:BRANCH , a See also:city of See also:Monmouth See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., on the easternmost or " long " branch of the See also:Shrewsbury See also:river and on the See also:Atlantic See also:coast, about 30 M. S. of New See also:York City. Pop. (1890) 7231; (1900) 8872, of whom 1431 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 987 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 13,298. It is served by the See also:Pennsylvania, the Central of New Jersey, the New York & Long Branch, and electric See also:railways, and by steamboats to New York. The See also:carriage roads in the vicinity are unusually See also:good. Long Branch is one of the See also:oldest See also:American watering-places. It is situated on a See also:bluff which rises abruptly 20-35 ft. above the See also:beach, and along the front of which bulkheads and jetties have been erected as a See also:protection from the waves; along or near the edge of the bluff, Ocean See also:Avenue, 6o ft. wide and about 5 M. long (from Seabright to See also:Deal), commands delightful views of the ocean. A " bluff walk " runs above the See also:water 'for 2 M. The city has one public See also:park, Ocean Park (about ro acres), and two privately owned parks, one of which is See also:Pleasure See also:Bay Park (25 acres), on the Shrewsbury river, where operas are given in the open See also:air. The See also:principal public institutions are the Monmouth Memorial See also:Hospital and the Long Branch Circulating Library. In Long Branch the Monmouth County See also:Horse Show is held annually in See also:July.

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southern See also:part of Long Branch, known as Elberon, contains some beautiful summer residences—in one of its cottages See also:General U. S. See also:Grant spent his summers for many years, and in another, the Francklyn, See also:President J. A. See also:Garfield died in 1881. In 1909 a See also:monument to Garfield was erected in Ocean Park. Adjoining Long Branch on the N. is the See also:borough of Monmouth Beach (incorporated in 1906; See also:population, 1910, 485). Before the See also:War of See also:Independence the site of Long Branch was owned by See also:Colonel See also:White, a See also:British officer. It was confiscated as a result of the war, and See also:late in the See also:century its development as a watering-See also:place began. Long Branch was chartered as a city in 1904.

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