MAP NAME

DESCRIPTION

DATE

LOCATION

"Map of Monmouth County, New Jersey"

The locations of six houses in the territory of today's Atlantic Highlands are shown in this single-sheet rare map from surveys by Jesse Lightfoot.

1851

Map Drawer 2nd drawer from bottom, bottom layer

"Portions of Middletown and Ocean Town-ships"

From Beers Atlas of Monmouth County, plates 52-53.

Shows 5-sided fort on Sandy Hook; lands of C. Sears, A. Mount, E. Hooper in Atl.Hlds;

Keansburg = "Granville; Fairview above Red Bank bridge ="Hedden's Corner"; "proposed NY and LB RR" through Middletown.

1873

Map Drawer 2nd drawer from bottom, 3rd layer from bottom

"Atlantic Highlands Panorama"

Aerial view painting by W.C.Rymer

1879

2^nd Floor Hallway

"Map of the Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth County, New Jersey."

Atlantic Highlands Association map (also known as Noble/Cooper map). It shows the following tracts:  J. Edgar Bowne, Hillside Park (including proposed "Hillside Lake" and four othe proposed lakes), estate of Joseph Bowne, Glenoble Park, the Hubbard tract, and Brevent Park. Details in Atlantic Highlands include the auditorium and the tabernacle on Bayview Avenue (today's Ocean Boulevard), and "Crystal Spring." Map made by J.C. Noble and civil engineer George Cooper.

1883

Tower Room

“Part of Middletown Township”

Plate 30 of Wolverton Atlas of Monmouth County, N.J

1889

Map Drawer 2nd drawer from bottom

"Driving Road Chart of Monmouth County"

Folds into leather covers about 4" by 6". Compiled for Wolverton Atlas of Monmouth County, N.J.  "Directory of Principal Hotels" includes Andrews, Grand View and Sea View Hotels in Atlantic Highlands. Shows 1) "Atlantic Highlands RR (NJ Southern RR) from Shoal Harbor to Red Bank and beyond; 2) Trolley line from Hopping Station (New Monmouth) to Brown's Dock at bay end of 1st Avenue in AH

1889

Map Drawer

top drawer

"Parts of Middletown and Eatontown Townships"

Shows Navesink peninsula and Sandy Hook, but nothing of Eatontown Twp.

1889

Tower Room

"Part of Atlantic Highlands"

Plate 3 of Wolverton's Atlas of Monmouth County. Shows concentric circle roads, downtown and west to Avenue D.  This map shows all original lot numbers, owners' names for all lots by then sold, and lot building footprints and owners' names for several dozen structures. It is also printed in reduced size on pages 64-65 of the "Atlantic Highlands" book by Randall Gabrielan in the "Images of America" series (on sale at the Strauss Mansion).

1889

Tower Room

"Map of Atlantic Highlands"

Plate 2 of Wolverton's Atlas of Monmouth County.  Covers a much larger area, extending to Brevent Park on the west, Hillside Road in Navesink, and Sears Landing Road  in the east. However, it has much less property data than the map on plate 3.   

1889

2^nd Floor Office

Bailey Panoramic Map

Contains accurate architectural drawings of all houses and other structures existing in 1894.  Reproductions of the map are on sale in the Strauss Museum gift shop.

1894

Library

"Road Map of New Jersey"

On roll-up linen-backed wall map with wood braces at top and bottom. Gives 1900 census data (AH pop 1,383). Lists long-distance steamship lines leaving from New York, Jersey City and Hoboken.

1900

Map Drawer

top drawer

"Monmouth Shore"

USGS topo  map

1902

Map Drawer

roll

Emery Map

Shows the footprint of all houses and other structures existing in 1906. Covers all of Atlantic Highlands and parts of close-by sections of Navesink, Leonardo and Chapel Hill in Middletown.

1906

"Map of the Borough of Atlantic Highlands, Adjacent Communities     and Surveys."

Compiled, drawn and for sale by T.J. Emery, Real Estate. Map covers the bay shore on the north from Navesink Park and Camp Hilton in the east, to Mardean in the west, and on the south it runs from Locust in the east to Chapel Hill in the west. Many tract names are given, and many house footprints are shown. It traces the railroad and trolley lines. A number of extinct or never-created lakes are also shown -- for example, Ladies' Lake where Foodtown now is, Davis Lake where Portland Pointe senior housing now is, Crystal Lake east of Many Mind Avenue south of the trolley line/JCPL corridor. 

1906

USGS Map from Saddle River on west to Manhattan on eat, south the South Amboy and Staten Island

1916

Map Drawer

roll

"Plan Showing Land to be Conveyed to Andrew Richard by the Central

Railroad Company of New Jersey."   

Issued by Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, Southern Division, Navesink Branch. Boro of Atlantic Highlands.

Land is west of Railroad tracks and east of Many Mind Creek. Its eastern and northern borders correspond to the current alignment and length of borders on the eastern portion of the Guiliani tract (block 119, lot 1). It runs as far as Many Mind Creek which (very odd to note) is shown in its pre-lagoon/pre-channelized form (lagoon was dug in 1917). The course of the creek is very meandering instead of straight. It runs north as a straight line behind and parallel to the beach and the high water line.

June 3, 1952

“Drainage Project, Many Mind Brook, Atlantic Highlands”

Two blueprint maps. One map covers from today's Highway 36 to Mount Avenue, and the second from Mount Avenue/South Avenue to the Bay.

The maps show: 1) the 1887, current and proposed course of Many Mind Creek ("new channel"); and 2)  a "Profile" of the creek bed with the top of bank, existing bed, and its intended lower bed after (presumably) dredging. Also proposed  is removal of an existing 48" pipe and concrete box which carried stream flows under the bridge at Center Avenue.   

* Map shows the boat lagoon almost at the mouth of  the creek at the bay, which was created in 1917 and jocularly known as "Mayor Snyder's bathtub."

No date but after 1917

"Navesink Sheet"

USGS Geological Survey of NJ

Map Drawer

roll

"Navesink Park"

Prospect Road (AH) east to Linden Avenue (Hlds)

Map Drawer

Bottom drawer/

2nd layer from bottom in manila envelopes