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Title: Hand-book of Atlantic City, New Jersey ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Heston, Alfred M. (Alfred Miller), 1854-1937
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Franklin Printing House
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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m the trouble of asking*^ and answering a thousand questions. It contains justwhat every visitor, as well as resident, ought to knowrespecting the greatest watering place in the country. Many ofthe illustrations are new, being drawn expressly for this work.The frontispiece, and a few others, are the property of the Penn-sylvania Railroad Company, kindly loaned for this purpose. Themap of Atlantic City is the best work of the kind yet published.The descriptive features of the book were written after personalvisits to the various places of interest in the city. It is hoped,therefore, that the Hand-Book will prove not only an invaluablecompanion on the spot, but an ever-welcome and entertainingfriend for future perusal and reference at the home fireside.The editor does not presume that the book is faultless; but to ap-proximate such a degree of completeness will be his constant en-deavor. He will, therefore, be grateful for any errors or omissionspointed out, or corrections suggested. 23
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En I^oute. TTTHE ride from Philadelphia to Atlantic City in search of healthI or pleasure is not entirely devoid of interest. The traveler1_, has the choice of three routes, two of which are a part ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad system. The other route is by wayof the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad, operated by theReading Company, which starts from the foot of Walnut Street.The popular routes, however, are the West Jersey and the Camdenand Atlantic, operated by the Pennsylvania Company. Crossingfrom the foot of Market Street, Philadelphia, the traveler takes theWest Jersey cars at Camden and passes south near the DelawareRiver to Gloucester, a city of over six thousand inhabitants, devotedto manufacturing. It was founded in 1689, and was held by LordCornwallis with five thousand British troops in 1777. The next sta-tion is Westville, near the mouth of Timber Creek, where CaptainCornelius JacobeseMey, of the Dutch West India Company, foundedFort Nassau in 1621. The Colonists were

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