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SEA BRIGHT
Sea Bright is a Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was formed by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 21, 1889, from portions of Ocean Township, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day. The borough was reincorporated on March 10, 1897.
History While Sea Bright's formal history stats in 1869, there was, in te early 1840s, a small cluster of wooded shacks nestled in the grassy sand dunes of the barrier beach. This was the best fishing village of Nauvoo. Often misinterpreted by historians and others as a Native American word, the origin of "Nauvoo" is Sephardic Hebrew. It is the same word that Mormon leader Joseph Smith gave to the Illinois town he founded in 1839. It literally means "beautiful of pleasnt place". It is speculated that New Jersey's Nauvoo might well have been named by Smith as he visited Monmouth County in 1839. In an event, moved by Mormon influence, Nauvoo was the name chosen by local fisherman for their tiny Jersey Shore settlement. One of the earliest accounts of the barrier beach, published a dozen years before Sea Bright's existence, describes a steamboat journey from New York to the Ocean House, a low rambling wooden structure situated on the beach opposite teh mouth of the Navesink River. Built in 1842, this first Sea Bright hotel offered "excellent fishing, fine sea bathing and capital accommodations" for three hundred patrons. At the Ocean House one "found a number of beach carriages", as they were called, awaiting the arrival of the boat from New York City to take passengers to Long Branch. Education Public school students in Kindergarten through eighth grade are educated by the Oceanport School District as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Schools in the district are Wolf Hill Elementary School (K-4th grade), and Maple Place Middle School (Grades 5-8).
For grades 9 - 12, public school students attend Shore Regional High School, a regional high school that serves students from the constituent districts of Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright, Oceanport and West Long Branch. The high school is part of the Shore Regional High School District.
Transportation
New Jersey Route 36 and County Route 520 both pass through the borough.
External links
Source: Wikipedia.com
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