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INDEX OF MAPS IN BLACK SCRAPBOOK

1. "Map of Hauser Park, Atlantic Highlands", Feb 1942

By Herbert O. Todd, Surveyor. The name "Hauser Park" was given by a real estate or development entrepreneur whose name was probably Hauser. It was applied to the area between Avenues A and D, and between Bay Avenue and the Bay. The map includes a "Hauser Avenue" which was not built.

IV-2, O.N.

 

2. "Building Lots on the Estate of Joseph Bowne, by J. C. Nobles", 1882

The area is bounded by the Bay (north), Leonard Avenue (south), Wagner Creek (west), and Avenue D (east). It includes the "Albert Speyers estate." An oddity is a large rectangular "Water Witch Lake" created by damming Wagner Creek south of Center Avenue, a lake which extends as far south as West Highland Avenue.

IV-3, O.N.

 

3. "Map of Building Lots for sale at Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey", 1881

For sale by John S. Hubbard. The area is bounded by Avenue D (west), Third Avenue (east), the bay (north), and what is now Highway 36. The map shows the footprints of Foster's Pavilion and the "Warf" at the foot of First Avenue. Avenue D at the bay is "Wallings Landing." It shows a street downtown which was never built: a Leonard Avenue which runs from the location of the Leonard homestead on First Avenue eastward to Third Avenue, between Bayview and Mount Avenues.

IV-4. O.N.

 

4. "Map of the Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth County NewJersey", 1883

Black and white copy (photostat) of the color original, by J. C. Nobles.  The map covers the area bounded by Sears Landing Road (east), Conover Beacon (west), the bay (north) and Hillside Avenue (south).

IV-4. O.N.

 

5. "Woodland Park" (picture) - MISSING. IV-4A , No date

 

6. "Ballingswood" (sic), No date

Hand-drawn, hand-colored map. Shows area bounded by Hooper Avenue (south), Bayview Avenue (north), the Auditorium (east) and Grand Avenue (west).

IV-23. O.N.

 

7.  "Maywood Terrace, Property of the Atlantic Investment Corporation Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey", 1927 revised 1932

Shows 22 lots, bounded by Avenue D (east), Bowne Avenue (west), Leonard Avenue (south), and both sides of West Washington Avenue (north).

IV-XX. ON

 

8.  "Map of Building Lots of the Atlantic Highlands Association", 1884

Shows area bounded by Many Mind Creek (west), Sears Landing (east), the bay (north), and Many Mind Creek past Navesink Avenue (south).

It shows the locations of:

- the Auditorium and the Tabernacle (and claims that the ampitheater seats 25,000!)

- the "Crystal Spring" in the hillside just east of the Auditoium off Bayview Avenue

- "Many Mind Spring" a little south of Bayview and west of Grand Avenue

- large farm lots bounded by East Washington and Grand Avenues.

It shows existing structures in the area from south of Mount Avenue to Bayview on the north, on six avenues: First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth.

Caption includes the following information:

"Atlantic Highlands - the New Christian Sea-Side Resort. Two years old. $200,000 worth of lots sold.

"Season of 1884:

4th of July celebration

Bible Reading Convention, Auugst 1st

Annual Camp Meeting, August 8 - 18

Sunday School Convention, August 27 - 31

 

9. "Woodland Park, Sculthorpe Realty Company, Owner", Nov 10, 1921, revised to Feb 1 1933

Area bounded by Many Mind Creek (south and east), North Avenue and Washington Avenue (north), Central Avenue (west).

IV-21. O.N.

 

10. No title, No date

Panorama of Woodland Park as if seen from above.                             

IV-21. O.N.

 

11. "Sears Estate", No date

Area bounded by Hooper Road (west), Sears Landing Road (east), the bay and Bayview Avenue (north), Mount Avenue (south). Also shown east of Sears Landing Road is land labeled "D.F. and G.V. Chapin." On Mount Avenue, the Maehl house is labeled "W. L. Baldwin's Residence."

IV-22. O.N.

 

12. "Map of Ballinswood", Dec 1914

Map shows pathways (never built) run up from Ocean Boulevard to the western and eastern ends of the dead-end circle on Ballinswood Road.

IV-23. O.N.

 

13. "Devesty and Cook", No date

MISSING                                                       

IV-24

 

14.  "Map of Daisy Park, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey", 1911

Area bounded by Portland Road (west), W.H. Gibson Property (east), F. M. Gillett Property and "Hendrick Hudson Avenue" (south), Hillside Avenue and P.S. Conover Property (north). The Conover property, which is undivided, runs downhill northward from Hillside Avenue. A large piece of land labeled "Charles Carhart Property" has a jagged boundary east of Portland Road.

Notes on the map indicsated that lots are for sale through Resident Agent J.S. Cruser, 7 Center Avrenue, near Depot in Atlantic Highlands, and through a New York agent, Chas. Hyllested, 29-33 West 42nd Street, New York.

IV-25. O.N.

 

15. Map missing - label has two crossed out titles: "Woodland Park" and "Proposed Ocean Highway", No date  

But see maps 9 and 10 above (Woodland Park) and map 23 below (Proposed Ocean Highway).

IV-26. O.N. 156.

 

16. "Topographical Map of Navesink Park (Map A)", No date

Map by Frank Osborn, Civil Engineer, Middletown. Area bounded by Linden Avenue (east), Ocean Boulevard- Highland Avenue intersection near Belvidere Road (west), the bay (north), and Wayside Drive and Navesink Avenue (south). Top portion of map is smeared, in the bay.

IV-27. O.N.

 

17. "A.F. Campbell Estate", No date

MISSING                                                                   

IV-27A. O.N.

 

18. "Topographical Map of Navesink Park (Map B)", No date

This shows a top slice from map 16 above, unsmeared, and reading "Riparian Rights Reserved" in the bay along Bayside Drive.

IV-27-B

 

19. "Atlantic Highlands", No date

MISSING                                                       

IV-27C.  O.N. 92

 

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21. "Map of Building Lots of the Atlantic Highlands Land and Improvement Company", 1892

Area bounded by Central Avenue ( west), Sears Avenue/Many Mind Creek (east), Many Mind Creek (south), North Avenue and Washington Avenue (north). Valley Drive/route 36 is named "Broadway."

 

22. "Map of Property Owned by Marge of Monmouth County and Other Parties, Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth County, New Jersey", 1917

Covers same areas as map 21, but 25 years later.

IV-31. O.N.

 

23. "Map of the Estate of Nath'nl Roberts, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey", 1889

Hand-drawn in a shaky hand. Areas bounded by the trolley line/today's JCPL corridor (south), Washington Avenue (north), First Avenue (west), and a line midway between Second and Third Avenues (east)

 

24. "Proposed Route of Ocean Highway", 1910

Two maps, which give the route and elevations of the highway and no other information. See also IV-198 and 114 below.

IV-98. O.N. 155

 

25. "Property in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, belonging to Edgar H. Cook and Chas. E. Devesty", 1916 

This map covers one small property, a triangular lot on Center Avenue west of Many Mind Creek; its space is marked "carpentry shop." Map was done as a survey for Guarantee Mortgage andTitle insurance Co., Newark.

NOTE: the map shows the channel of Many Mind Creek as it is in1916 and as it was in 1887 -- about 60 feet farther west.

IV-99. O.N.

 

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26. "Navesink Park 'C' ",  No date

MISSING

IV-100

 

27. "Navesink Park 'C' ", No date

Showing portion of Navesink which falls within the borders of Highlands

IV-101

 

 

HIGHLANDS MAPS:

 

28. "Map of Property of G.N. Niles Esquire, Water Witch, New Jersey ", 1907

IV-102

 

29. "Map of Building Lots of the New Point Comfort Beach Comapny, Elmore Tract", 1920