The post-Civil War era in American history was a time of unregulated growth and the rise and fall of fortunes in a cutthroat era of competition. With this as a background, two resorts only a few miles apart, Sea Haven on an island south of Long Beach Island, and Beach Haven on LBI itself, competed for the new tourist trade.
As the 1870s drew to a close, Sea Haven was served by two hotels, the 28-room Columbia and the larger, four-story St. Albans.
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