Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
1895 - Atlantic City

Atlantic City, a pleasure- and health-resort of Atlantic co., N.J., 60 miles S.E. of Philadelphia, and on the Atlantic Ocean, is on a narrow sandy island called Absecon Beach, extending from Great Egg Harbor Inlet on the S.W. to Absecon Inlet on the N.E. It is the S.E terminus of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad, the West Jersey Railroad, and the Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railroad. The island is 10 miles long, 3 of a mile wide, and 4 to 5 miles from the mainland. Here is a good beach for bathing; also a first-order light-house, called Absecon Light, near the N. point of the island. Atlantic City was incorporated in 1854. It has 15 churches, 2 daily and 5 weekly newspaper offices, about 2000 cottages and residences, and some 400 boarding-houses and hotels. Atlantic Avenue, the principal business street, is 100 feet wide, and is crossed at right angles by many other avenues, bearing the names of the states of the Union. There are also avenues named Arctic and Pacific, extending parallel with Atlantic Avenue. The city has gas, electric lights, and electric street-cars. Permanent population (greatly increased during the summer) in 1870, 1043; in 1880, 5477; in 1890, 13,055.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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