1952 Map of Ship Bottom

About this map

Long Beach barrier island serves as the focal point of this coastal survey, detailing the early 1950s development of shore communities from Ship Bottom and Surf City north to Harvey Cedars and High Point. This era shows the island before the modern bridge infrastructure fully transformed the coastline, with Long Beach Blvd connecting the narrow residential grids. Across the bay, the landscape remains largely undeveloped marshland and salt meadow, dominated by the Manahawkin Hunting and Fishing Grounds and a network of tidal waters like the Gunning River and Big Flat Creek.