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6 unusual facts about Long Branch


Adriana La Cerva

She is very ambitious and wants to have a business of her own; she is eventually set up as the manager of Christopher's Crazy Horse club in Long Branch, New Jersey, which becomes quite successful.

Amalgamation of Toronto

1931: Long Branch was severed from Etobicoke township to become a village.

Kevork Hovnanian

In 1986, Hovnanian constructed the St. Stepanos Armenian Church in the Elberon section of Long Branch in honor of his mother.

MarShon Brooks

Brooks was born in Long Branch, New Jersey and lived there until he was six years old, when his family moved to Tucker, Georgia.

Pasquale Simonelli

Simonelli married Rosa in 1903 and had two children: Julius (born in 1904 in their summer home on Brighton Ave, Long Branch, New Jersey) and Maria.

York County, Ontario

Three Lakeshore communities later developed into separate municipalities: Mimico (1911 Village/1917 Town), New Toronto (1913 Village/1920 Town), Long Branch (1930 Village).


Joseph Francis

The government declined to fund his metal boats, so he began his own business on the Jersey Shore, near Long Branch.

Rufus Blodgett

Born in Dorchester, New Hampshire; attended the common schools and Wentworth Academy; learned the machinist's trade; moved to New Jersey in 1866 and settled in Long Branch, New Jersey; builder of railroad equipment; president of the Long Branch City Bank.

Sonny Greer

Greer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and played with Elmer Snowden's band and the Howard Theatre's orchestra in Washington, D.C. before joining Duke Ellington, whom he met in 1919.

Syrian Jewish communities of the United States

The New Jersey community is mainly based in Monmouth County, especially Deal, Elberon, Long Branch, Oakhurst and Bradley Beach.


see also

Elberon

Elberon, New Jersey, a section of Long Branch, a city of 31,000 in Monmouth County

Forge Valley Line

The Forge Valley Line was a 16 mile long branch of the North Eastern Railway between Seamer (near Scarborough, North Yorkshire) and Pickering.

Max's Famous Hotdogs

In 1995 Gov. Christine Todd Whitman proclaimed "Democrats and Republicans are in agreement on very few issues, but we can all concur that Max’s in Long Branch serves the most outstanding hot dogs in New Jersey."

Royal Flying Corps Canada

Training was provided both by the Curtiss Aviation School at Long Branch near Toronto (land plane training) and Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island (for flying boat training), and in the United States.

Taunus Railway

The Soden Railway (Sodener Bahn), a 6.6 km long branch line running from the to Frankfurt-Höchst station to Bad Soden, had been operated since its opening in 1847 by the Taunus Railway and in 1862/63 it was taken by it.