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The Beach Haven Historic District is a historic district in Beach Haven, Ocean County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1983 for its significance in architecture and history as a beach-front resort during the 19th century. [4] The district boundary was increased on November 19, 2014.
The New Jersey Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Beach Haven, New Jersey, on Long Beach Island.It opened its doors to the public on July 3, 2007. Its main areas of focus are shipwrecks off the New Jersey coast and their salvaged artifacts, scuba diving and the diving community, notable maritime incidents in New Jersey waters, and the history of the United States Life-Saving Service and ...
Thinking about the unstoppable flow of time and how it changes everything in its path can be unsettling. People have no choice but to grow old, and non-living things get worn down just the same.
Beach Haven, known as the "Queen City," [24] is a late 19th-century beachfront resort originally established in 1873 to house wealthy summer residents from Philadelphia. . Although some of the major structures, including several hotels and a boardwalk, were lost to storms in the 1940s including the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, [25] a large portion of the town retains its Victorian and ...
In medieval times, warships had a single deck, with raised structures at each end: the "forecastle" in the front, and the "aftercastle" in the rear.Following the introduction of cannon, the aftercastle was gradually replaced with a simpler structure consisting of the halfdeck above the main deck, extending forwards from the stern to the mainmast; and above that the quarterdeck, extending about ...
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The port quarter galleries of the 17th century warship Vasa.The galleries alone have over 70 highly ornate wooden sculptures of varying themes and size, all of which were originally painted in bright, vivid colors.