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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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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...
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,...
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...
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...
1918-12 – Beachwood Property Owners’ Assn. Membership Booklet
Beginning in late 1918, the Beachwood Property Owners' Association published and distributed this booklet outlining the first handful of years in the resort borough, detailing its progression from New York City-based newspaper land promotion to independent borough,...
1913-01 – Los Angeles, CA – B.C. Mayo Proposes Beachwood Resort to A.D. Nickerson
Bertram Chapman (B.C.) Mayo (middle) traveled to Los Angeles, California, where Addison Doane (A.D.) Nickerson (left) was staying with his family at 142 North Kingsley Drive, to propose the newspaper-backed promotion resort development that would become Beachwood.