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Plat map of Highland Beach lots 20–48, N.J. Southern Railway alignment

ca. 1893

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

A section of an original surveyor's plat map of Highland Beach showing numbered lots 20 through 48 (and the neighboring 49-plus range at left), the New Jersey Southern Railway right-of-way, Highland Beach Station, the bathhouse row, and the leaseholders' annotations. The label at the left half of the row reads HIGHLAND BEACH ASSOCIATION; the right half reads HIGHLAND BEACH IMPROVEMENT CO. Two individual leaseholders are named on adjacent lots — A. W. Crocker and M. L. Fish — recording the exact footprint of the Improvement Company's lease-to-individual model. The date is close to the 1893 lease that first placed William Sandlass on Lots 23–26.