1893 Map of Asbury Park

Inland, the pattern of growth follows the rail lines, with settlements like Farmingdale and Allaire serving as nodes for the Freehold and Jamesburg Railroad and the New Jersey Southern Railroad. The southern portion of the map transitions into the drainage basins of the Metedeconk River and Kettle Creek, where smaller hamlets such as Herbertsville and Silverton stand among a network of brooks and branches. This record of Monmouth and Ocean counties captures the Jersey Shore at its height as a destination before modern twentieth-century coastal engineering altered the inlets and waterfronts.