For all of recorded time the only practical way to travel to what is today known as Long Beach Island had been over the bay by boat. This isolation came to an end in 1886 when the Philadelphia Times announced on June 29, “The C, a spur of the Long Branch division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was formally opened for travel yesterday morning. The new road is about fourteen miles in length and runs from the Tuckerton Railroad at Manahawkin across Barnegat Bay to Barnegat City.”
The island was now linked to the mainland by a piece of modern technology, a 2-mile-long, low-to-the-water wooden…
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