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8 unusual facts about Ocean County


Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New Jersey

The beaches of southern Ocean County experienced a loss of 3 to 4 feet (0.9 to 1.2 m) of sand, while locations further to the north experienced only minor erosion.

New Jersey Route 187

After Route S-4-A's extension from Ocean County was canceled, Route S-4-A along this alignment became State Highway Route S-56, as a spur of Route 56.

New Jersey Route 56

In the past, the Route 56 number was used twice for a never-built road between the Laurelton Circle and Mantoloking in Ocean County legislated in 1938 and for the portion of U.S. Route 30 between current Route 157 and Atlantic City between 1938 and 1953.

New Jersey Route 87

What is now Route 87 was initially proposed as Route S4A in 1927, a spur from Route 4 (now U.S. Route 9) in Tuckerton, Ocean County, south through Brigantine to Atlantic City.

Ocean County, New Jersey

Georgian Court University in Lakewood is a private Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy college, which opened in 1908 on the former winter estate of millionaire George Jay Gould I, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould.

Ocean Township, Ocean County, New Jersey

Ocean Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 13, 1876, from portions of both Lacey Township and Union Township (now Barnegat Township).

Sung J. Woo

He grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey.

Waretown, New Jersey

Waretown is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated area located within Ocean Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.


Alexander Gretchaninov

He died in New York at the age of 91 and is buried outside the church at Rova Farms, a Russian enclave in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.

Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge

The Barnegat Division (established in 1967) is located in Ocean County on the inland side of Barnegat Bay.

Golf House

Golf House is a former estate house that was constructed in the early 1900s by John D. Rockefeller in Lakewood Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.


see also

John C. Bartlett, Jr.

Bartlett is an Ocean County native who has lived in Pine Beach since 1947 and was a member of the inaugural graduating class of Ocean County College.