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CHAPTER II

 

A CITY IS FORMED

 

 

Before incorporation. In the early 1850’s John Lewis Rowand was requested by the land company to map the area and lay out the streets below Boston Avenue. This he did naming the streets after state capitals and other large cities. However, it was not until the 1880's that development in this downbeach area got underway.

In 1881 the Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company extended its tracks from

                                                                      

Florida Avenue in Atlantic City to South Atlantic City.1 It was necessary to construct a trestle across Dry Inlet, raising the roadbed eight feet above the normal.1 Five years later the directors of the Camden and Atlantic Land Company authorized the president, Samuel Richards, to use $5,000 for grading the land below Dry Inlet.1 In doing so it was necessary to level twenty foot high sand hills and spread them over adjacent meadows.

(1) From Page 15 of the Book

A History of Ventnor City, New Jersey.

by Sarah Thompson Smith

Published in 1963

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