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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 988 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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OCEAN See also:

GROVE (O.E. graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other Teutonic language, and the New English Dictionary finds no Indo-European root to which it can be referred; Skeat considers it connected with " grave," to
GROVE, SIR GEORGE (182o-1900)
GROVE, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT (1811-1896)

GROVE , a summer resort of See also:

Monmouth See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, New See also:

Jersey, U.S.A., in the eastern See also:

PART

part of the See also:

state, on the See also:

ATLANTIC

Atlantic See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, and 55 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail S. of New See also:

York See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City. Pop. (1909), about 2500. It is served by the See also:

Pennsylvania and the Central of New Jersey See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. It is noted as a religious and musical seaside resort, and in See also:

JULY

July and See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August, and especially in the last ten days of August, during its See also:

ANNUAL

annual See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp-See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting, is visited by thousands of See also:

PEOPLE

people. Ocean Grove was founded in 1869 by the Ocean Grove Camp-Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal See also:

Church, as a See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place for religious See also:

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship, See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest and recreation, See also:

FREE

free from all forms of questionable amusement, and is governed under a See also:

CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a body, corpus, corporis)

corporation See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter, the corporation having See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to place restrictions in all leases.

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