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Atlantic City, New Jersey

The one place where you can have it all. Atlantic City, America's Favorite Playground. Where you can enjoy the excitement of 12 fabulous, 24-hour casinos, world-class entertainment and superstars galore every day and night of the year.
Want to go from wild to mild? Stroll the world-famous Boardwalk. Visit the beautiful Marina. Enjoy a multitude of dining experiences. Play golf, enjoy sailing, boating or fishing, or visit one of our fabulous attractions, events or historical sites. It's easy to see why this popular resort is America's favorite place to play.
Atlantic City, an easy day's drive from all major Northeast cities, is currently undergoing a multi-billion dollar, 44-block, citywide renaissance and redevelopment. No wonder 34 million people made it America's Favorite Playground last year - and the most popular vacation destination in the country. Now's a perfect time for you to experience it for yourself.
Atlantic City has a long and varied history. Though much has been written about the post 1977 casino years, and the heyday years of the 30's and 40's when the Atlantic City Boardwalk was the in place to be seen, there is a wealth of rich history which dates back over two hundred years before the first dice were thrown or the first jitney hit the pavement. Let's take a look back into history and discover all the people who helped make Atlantic City, not only what it is today, but what it will be in the future.
The original inhabitants of Absecon Island, on which Atlantic City rests, were the Lenni-Lenape Indians. The Lenni-Lenapes would travel over the Old Indian Trail from the Mainland to the island to spend the summer months. The trail, which was located approximately where Florida Ave. is today, was five miles long over the marshland. The Indians would partake of the abundance the ocean and bay had to offer, along with the varieties of wildlife and flora of the island. The first recorded owner of Absecon Island was Thomas Budd, an Englishman, who arrived in Atlantic County in late 1670's. Budd was given the island and other acreage as settlement of a claim he had against the holders of the royal grant. His mainland property was then valued at $ 0.40 an acre, while the beach land a mere $ 0.04 an acre. That same piece of beachfront property today would be worth millions of dollars per acre.
For the next hundred years, not only the Indians, but also hunters and some of the early mainland settlers would visit the island. Among these brave soles, was Jeremiah Leeds. Leeds, born in Leeds Point in 1754, was the first white man to build a permanent structure on the island in 1785 at what is now Arctic and Arkansas Ave. His grandfather had built a cedar log cabin on Baltic Ave. at the site of the recently demolished bus terminal as early as 1783. Jeremiah and his family were the first official residents of Atlantic City. Their home and farm was called Leeds Plantation, and Leeds grew corn and rye and raised cattle. A year after Leeds death in 1838, his second wife Millicent got a license to operate a tavern called Aunt Millie’s Boarding House, located at Baltic and Massachusetts Ave. Thus, the first business in Atlantic City was born.
Several of Jeremiah and Millicent’s children were important in their own right. Robert B. Leeds, born in Atlantic City on May 2, 1828, was the city’s first postmaster. Another son Chalkey S. Leeds, born in Atlantic City in 1824, became the city’s first mayor in 1854.
By the year 1850, there were seven permanent dwellings on the island, all but one, which were owned by descendants of Jeremiah Leeds. Dr. Jonathan Pitney, a prominent physician who lived in Absecon, felt that the island had much to offer, and even had ideas of making the island a health resort but access to the island had to be improved. Pitney, along with a civil engineer from Philadelphia, Richard Osborne, had the idea to bring the railroad to the island. In 1852, construction began on the Camden-Atlantic City Railroad. On July 5, 1854, the first train arrived from Camden after a grueling 21/2-hour trip, and the invasion of the tourists had begun.
Atlantic City became "the’ place to go. Entertainers from vaudeville to Hollywood graced the stages of the piers. Glamorous Hotels like Haddon Hall, The Traymore, The Shelburne and The Marlborough-Blenheim drew guests from all over the world. Atlantic City's future seemed bright, until World War II. After the war, the public seemed to stop its love affair with The World's Favorite Playground. Possibly because of the publics access to national air travel, the shift of the population westward, the general deterioration of the city, or a shift in the public’s taste for more sophisticated entertainment, Atlantic City lost much of its shine; and most of its tourists.
With the passage of the Casino Gambling Referendum in 1976, Atlantic City began an upward battle, not unlike one it had started two hundred years before, to use the glorious resources it has been given by nature, to make it once again a world renown tourist Mecca.
BIRCH GROVE PARK AND WILDLIFE ZOO.
Lakes for fishing; playground, mini zoo, walking paths, and picnic areas. Miniature golf and camping seasonal
BOATING: Duke O'Fluke party boat sails from Fishing in the back bays for flounder, weakies, and blues. Operating 4-hour trips
TOWNE OF HISTORIC SMITHVILLE.
Ten miles North of Atlantic City Restored 18th century village set around Lake Meone. Five restaurants and 60 shops specializing in antiques, gifts, souvenirs, gourmet foods, baked goods, and clothing.
The Civil Rights Garden is a tranquil public sculpture garden comprised of 11 granite columns, winding pathways, plants, flowers, Ginko trees and sculptures with inscriptions related to the history, events and people of the Civil Rights Movement. The Historical Museum presents the culturally diverse exciting history of Atlantic City with vintage photographs, local artifacts and a video presentation. Atlantic City Art Center on Garden Pier a 2500 square-foot gallery over the ocean showcasing unique artworks in all media. Atlantic City's historic Absecon Lighthouse, the tallest of New Jersey's lights, still boasts its original First-Order Fresnel lens. Visitors can climb its 228 steps for a spectacular view.

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