Long Branch: People & Places (NJ) (Images of America)

Arcadia Publishing, 1998-10-31. Paperback. Very Good. Arcadia Publishing [Published date: 1998]. Soft cover, 128 pp. No other printings listed. In very good condition. Black and white pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and creasing to top corner to front cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. Nice black and white photos throughout. [From back cover] LONG BRANCH, NEW JERSEY 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 RandallGabrielan has gathered a collection of images that vividly represent the New Jersey city that became a mecca for presidents, financiers, and gamblers. In Long Branch People and Places, tour stately summer homes, visit hotels of the gilded age, and behold Long Branches famed Ocean Pier—widely considered a 19th-century engineering marvel.Through this collection of more than 200 photographs, discover how Long Branch developed into a significant resort in the 1800s, and gaininsight into its business power, educational life, and spiritual being.Randall Gabrielan is a Monmouth County historian and the author of many popular books in the Images of America series. His enthusiasm for local history and its relationship to current affairs is evident on every page.