Excerpt from Souvenir Programme of the Services Attending the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Organization of the First Presbyterian Church of Manasquan, New Jersey: April 10-13, 1898 Fifty years ago the site of our pleasant town by the sea, was occupied, for the most part, by the Curtis and Pearce farms. There were a little cluster of buildings about what is now the centre of the town, a few detached farm houses. Two country roads, which have since become two of our principal thoroughfares and been dignified by the names Main street and South street, and a stream, flowing through the centre of the tract, adding to its beauty and fertility, doubtless, but also to the annoyance of pedestrians who would sink ankle deep in the mud. This is something of the picture which the old residents can see as their minds go back to the period of beginnings. Our congregation was never disturbed and startled, in those old days, by the whistle of the engine and the rush of the railroad train carrying Sunday excursionists to the shore, and for the two very good reasons that we had neither railroad or church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.