townships in the State. It was settled by the 
Dutch, but soon after became the dominion of 
the Quakers, who built their first meeting house 
in 1669. There is still a Quaker meeting 
there, and a considerable number of Quakers, all 
of whom belong to the New York yearly meeting. 
Monmouth Beach. 
Monmouth Beach as a summer resort has only 
a short history. Not more than twenty-five years 
ago a party of six or eight New York families, 
in a very primitive way, colonized here for a 
summer, using an old inn for a club house where 
they got their meals and assembled for social 
intercourse. That was the beginning from which 
the present popular seaside resort with its com- 
modious club house and many beautiful villa 
homes, has grown. 
Protecting Bulwarks 
The villas along the ocean front are protected 
from the varying moods of the ocean surf, which 
at times is vigorous and fierce, by gigantic bul- 
warks from fifteen to twenty feet high, of driven 
logs backed by carloads of broken rock. These 
bulwarks, notwithstanding their apparent strength, 
need constant care, and are the only means of 
preventing the sea pushing the whole front shore 
with its villas back into the Shrewsbury. 
Drives and Parks. 
Ocean boulevard runs just in rear of the villas, 
from Seabright to beyond Long Branch, and the 
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