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hits | 57 Shore Rd, Absecon, NJ 08201
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Overview:
The village was Absecum (Absecon), the year was about 1819 and the horseman was young Dr. Jonathan Pitney. Only twenty-one years old, Pitney has just completed two years as an assistant in a hospital on Staten Island, following his graduation from a New York medical school. Probably few noticed the youthful horseman as he arrived in the village. Certainly no one knew or cared that he had just completed the long trip from his birthplace and home in Mendham, Morris County, where he had been born October 29, 1797. How could anyone have foreseen that this young doctor would become forever famous and one day be called the "Father of Atlantic City," Queen Resort of the Coast. He was to be responsible for the construction of the railroad east across New Jersey through the salt marshes to Absecon Island, now Atlantic City. | |
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