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As of the United States 2000 Census , the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 07740 was 31,671. The , Historic Preservation Office. Accessed September 1 , 2007 . Eleberon was a beach resort community in the late 1700s. In the 1800s it was a "Hollywood" of the east, where some of the greatest theatrical and other performers of the day gathered and performed. It was visited by presidents Chester A. Arthur , James Garfield , Ulysses S. Grant , Benjamin Harrison , Rutherford Hayes , William McKinley , and Woodrow Wilson . (2006) The Year in Review, The Long Branch Historical Association, Page 1. Seven Presidents Park, a park near the beach, is named in honor of their visits. The Church Of The Presidents , where all seven worshiped, is the only structure left in Long Branch associated with them. The church was built in 1879, designed by New York architects William Appleton Potter and Robert Henderson Robertson . President '', August 4 , 1991 . Accessed July 10 , 2007 . "Along the 125-mile stretch of Jersey seashore, the northernmost of the Great Boardwalk Towns is Asbury Park, a resort that developed in the late 1800's as an alternative to its then vice-ridden neighbor, Long Branch, the town where President James Garfield died from gunshot wounds and thus became the first, but by no means only, local habitue to be dispatched at the hand of a disappointed office seeker." The Garfield Tea House , built from railroad ties that carried Garfield's train, is in Elberon. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINK |
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