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Ghost Sign Appears – Beachwood Garage Machine & Repair Shop

Roof raising and exterior renovation work has exposed a ghost sign in Beachwood Borough this week,...
Borough Meeting Minutes Beginning 1931

Borough Meeting Minutes Beginning 1931

Thanks to a generous partnership with both the Borough of Beachwood and Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission, borough meeting minutes of past decades are being digitized for access on BeachwoodHistory.com. Each successive month, starting with the earliest...

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Got History? Free Digitizing!

Got History? Free Digitizing!

As part of volunteer effort to protect and present the history of Beachwood, Beachwood History.com offers free professional digitizing services for personal collections - photos, paperwork, publications, postcards, physical objects, etc - through our flatbed scanner...

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Founder Biography: Bertram Chapman Mayo

Founder Biography: Bertram Chapman Mayo

The text below has been taken straight from William Mill Butler's Beachwood Directory and Who's Who, 1924.   Life Work of the Founder of Beachwood   Bertram Chapman Mayo, son of Noah and Eveline R. Mayo, was born March 23rd, 1865, in Boston, Massachusetts,...

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Fifty Years of Beachwood, 1917-1967

Fifty Years of Beachwood, 1917-1967

Below is Ruth Perry's 1967 work of a brief report on the first fifty years of the incorporation of the Borough of Beachwood (noting the original resort, when still part of Berkeley Township, opened Decoration (Memorial) Day weekend, 1915). PREFACE The Reverend Henry...

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Building Beachwood: The Basics

Building Beachwood: The Basics

The following was created for local elementary and middle school students interested in the town's history and/or needing a subject for a class report. Over 100 years ago, in 1913, a man named Bertram C. Mayo traveled all the way to California to meet an old classmate...

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