2007 Archives History Game – The Jersey Shore in Monmouth County
# | Questions | T/F |
1 | At the 1897 Baby Parade in Asbury Park, one of the prizes was for “Heaviest Boy Under One Year of Age.” | |
2 | In 1906, the Lyric Hall and Garden in Asbury Park claimed to be “the largest Afro-American Resort in America.” | |
3 | At Celia Brown’s restaurant in South Belmar in the 1930s and 1940s, customers would stay in their automobiles and a ‘carhop’ would serve them. | |
4 | President James Garfield died in Elberon in 1881 after he was shot in Washington by Charles Guiteau, a deranged office-seeker. | |
5 | Wilbur Wright attended a competitive air show held in Interlaken in 1910. | |
6 | In the 1860s, the American Hotel in Long Branch offered “stale bread” on the breakfast menu. | |
7 | William McKinley was one of the seven U.S. presidents who worshipped at St. James Chapel in Long Branch. | |
8 | The Monmouth Beach Life-Saving Station, now the town’s Cultural Center, was built in 1857, more than a decade before the town was developed. | |
9 | Organized in 1869, the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association divided Ocean Grove into lots that were leased to members for their tents. | |
10 | The racetrack Monmouth Park was closed between 1893 and 1946 as a consequence of anti-gambling legislation. | |
11 | Red Bank photographer Charles R.D. Foxwell, who sold thousands of picture postcards of Monmouth County in the early 1900s, became a Justice of the Peace. | |
12 | In September 1934, after a catastrophic fire, the luxury liner SS Morro Castle ran aground at Asbury Park. | |
13 | Built in 1872, the first draw bridge from Highlands to Sea Bright got stuck in the open position from 1875 to 1878 after being hit by a schooner. | |
14 | Sea Bright was formerly named after a Sephardic Hebrew term, “Nauvoo,” which means “beautiful or pleasant place.” | |
15 | In 1853, Commodore Robert Field Stockton of Princeton purchased a seaside farm he called, “Seagirt,” after which the town Sea Girt was named. | |
16 | The Sandy Hook Lighthouse, completed in 1764, is the oldest operating lighthouse in the United States. | |
17 | The Lake House hotel in Spring Lake, which opened in 1877, was formerly the Public Comfort Building at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. | |
18 | The Aida Trumpet Quartet, four women dressed in American flags, played at President Taft’s Reception at the Ocean Grove Auditorium on August 15, 1911 | |
19 | Southern black migrants to Monmouth County formed churches that became centers for civil rights advocacy, such as St. Stephen A.M.E. Zion, founded in 1878 in Asbury Park. | |
20 | Turkish Trophy Bathing Beauty Cards (1902) depicted idealized women on cards named “Asbury Park,” “Long Branch,” “Ocean Grove,” et al. to promote tobacco sales. | |
21 | Both William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt campaigned in Red Bank for the Republican presidential nomination in 1912. | |
22 | “Hot Dog Bob’s” was one of fifty reasons to love Keyport, stated Bob Cullinane in the Asbury Park Press in 1999. | |
23 | According to the 1920 Census, the only Chinese in Long Branch were six laundrymen. | |
24 | In 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson vacationed at the Union House in what is now Brielle (formerly Squan), but did not write Treasure Island there. | |
25 | Using an antenna tower built at Twin Lights in 1899, Gugliemo Marconi first demonstrated wireless telegraphy in the United States. |
(all answers are true)