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Randall Gabrielan
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A bucolic borough centered between two rivers and a broad boulevard, Rumson evokes the legendary Rumson Road, which by 1890 was one of the nation’s most famed country drives. Life…
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In 1996, residents of Rumson greeted the publicationof a photographic history on their town with tremendous enthusiasm. For the first time, a visualrecord of the community’s history was…
Sandy Hook, a peninsula on the northern Atlantic coast, is a magnificent ocean beach and the most visited site in Monmouth County. For generations,residents and visitors have enjoyed the…
The Jersey Shore evokes images of boardwalks and beach resorts, but its beginnings were far different. In the mid-nineteenth century, visionary entrepreneurs transformed the sleepy agrarian and maritime communities of…
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With desirable beach communities and nearby commuter-friendly towns, Monmouth County continues to attract new residents, while nostalgic memories of bygone landmarks, forgotten businesses and more remain in the hearts of…
With over two hundred historical photographs,Allentown and Upper Freehold Township offers afascinating overview of two communities in MonmouthCounty that are closely tied together historically and culturally. Allentown…
Piscataway, one of New Jersey’s oldest settlements, was organized in the 1660s. Historically, the area’s appeal has come from its rich agricultural land and from its location as a port…
Red Bank is a riverfront town that used its location on the water to grow rapidly between the 1830s and 1850s. The coming of the railroad in the 1860s accelerated…
Fair Haven, New Jersey, located on the central part of the Navesink River shore, completes the Images of America documentation of the Navesink-Shrewsbury Rivers peninsula. It has a unique and…
Fair Haven: The Making of a Modern Town continues the detailed look into the history of this New Jerseycommunity. In over 200 images, the author further explores the town’s…
Middletown Township: Volume II is a fascinating collection of over 220 vintage views of this venerable township, and it explores in even greater depth the rich and historic fabric of…
Residents of Red Bank, one of New Jersey’s best known shore towns, greeted the publication of a photographic history if their town with tremendousenthusiasm in 1995. For the first…
Shrewsbury, one of New Jerseys oldest settlements, has been a separate borough only since 1926
The history of Marlboro Township is both fascinating and diverse, including topics as varied as some of the first airplanes, a landmark greenhouse, and the once booming local potato industry…
Middletown Township has the distinction of being one of the earliest settlements in New Jersey. Although the township does not have any large photograph archives, author Randall Gabrielan has carefully…
Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our picture of the past…
Colts Neck, the Monmouth County township known by thatname only since 1962, has witnessed a rapid pace of changein its recent past. The once-rural community has been adapting…
The name of Keansburg usually evokes pleasant memories of the town’s forty years of glory as a waterfront resort. But the fact that Keansburg also has a rich heritage of…
Long Branch’s rich and varied past makes it one of Monmouth County’s most important historic places. Although much of the physical evidence of its earlier days is gone, historian Randall…
The early decades of the twentieth century were among the most vibrant for both New York City and the world of postcards. The 1898 consolidation of the city’s five boroughs…
With over two hundred historical photographs,
Allentown and Upper Freehold Township offers a
fascinating overview of two communities in Monmouth
County that are closely tied together historically and culturally. Allentown…
The scenic splendor of Atlantic Highlands that first drew settlers to the area continues to impress visitors today. Here part of the story of this town is presented through family…
PRIMARY COVERAGE AREA: Rumson, Sea Bright, Little Silver
Jersey City in Vintage Postcards features selected postcard images, some actual photographs, that depict Jersey City’s early-twentieth-century rise as one of the Northeast’s great urban areas. Many of the views…
Broadway, arguably the most famous street in the world, is the only one that runs the full length of Manhattan, which was not always the case. Founded at New York’s…
Provides a pictorial history of Sandy Hook, a peninsula on the northern Atlantic coast in Monmouth County, New Jersey, including views of Fort Hancock and the Army Ordnance Proving Ground.
The twentieth century can truly be said to have been America’s century. As the nation reached the position of world leader, her towns and cities changed at an unprecedented pace.
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Residents of Red Bank, one of New Jersey’s best-known shore towns, greeted the publication of a photographic history if their town with tremendous
enthusiasm in 1995. For the first time…
The twentieth century can truly be said to have been America’s century. As the nation reached the position of world leader, her towns and cities changed at an unprecedented pace…
From the 1890s through the 1930s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced were works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length…
Red Bank, New Jersey–one of the state’s most vibrantplaces–is fortunate to have such a comprehensive andvivid photographic record. Pioneer photographers from the 1860s, as well as their modern…
Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright are the first two municipalities below the United States Government’s Sandy Hook–the northernmost stem of New Jersey’s barrier beach on the Atlantic coast–and an analysis…
With Atlantic Highlands, author Randall Gabrielan continues his insightful photographic journey through eastern Monmouth County at the turn of the century. Many family heirlooms, carefully gathered from local residents, the…
Homesteads and mansions, museums and memorials, lighthouses, a battlefield, historic districts and theatres, these are some of the sites that have shaped Monmouth County. These varied places are preserved for…
While World War I raged in Europe, America scrambled to supply the Allies with ammunition, and several munitions plants were constructed near the Jersey Shore. The hastily built plants hummed…
