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1901 Map of Asbury Park

Name: 1901 Topographic Map of Asbury Park
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1909
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1909

About this map

The Jersey Shore coast between the Shark River Inlet and the Metedeconk Neck is a landscape of established seaside resorts and inland farming hamlets at the dawn of the twentieth century. While coastal towns like Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, and Bradley Beach are densely settled, the interior remains defined by small hubs like Farmingdale and Allaire. The area’s economic life is tied to the coast and the water, visible in the chain of life-saving stations, including L.S. Station Squan Beach and L.S. Station Mantoloking, which guarded the treacherous Atlantic shoreline.

Transportation networks, including the New York and Long Branch Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad, connect the maritime activities of the Manasquan River and Shark River to the growing population centers. To the west, the topography shifts towards the interior plains of Lakewood, where Lake Carasaljo stands as a focal point for the developing community near the border of Monmouth and Ocean counties.