Regatta on the Barnegat Bay
Sometime in the first half of the 20th century.
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News from Barnegat, 1879
New Jersey Courier 6 Feb 1879: The bay is still frozen over here and has been since the last of December, a very long period. Our people daily walk across it in going to and coming from the beach.
More news from Barnegat, 1879
from the New Jersey Courier 6 Feb 1879: The bay is still frozen over here and has been since the last of December, a very long period. Our people daily walk across it in going to and coming from the beach
death of Dennis McElhinney
New Jersey Courier 14 Nov 1930 A diver who spent Thursday and Friday of last week trying to find the body of Dennis McElhinney, in the bay between Dutch's Inn and the Bay Draw, gave it up on Friday night and did not return on Saturday, having found no trace of McElhenney. The missing man, believed to have drowned, was last seen at Dutch's Inn, on Saturday, Oct 25, with a strong northwest gale blowing. It is understood, from the story told by his companion, that he had been drinking and was taken by George W. Alsheimer that day and cared for, till he insisted on leaving with his chum, about dusk, when the latter came back from a gunning point to see how McElhinney was getting on. What happened after that is a confused story. McElhinney is supposed to have fallen in the bay and to have drowned. The diver, Ray Hensen, on Thursday had a tear in the sleeve of his diving suit and so was in the water only about three hours. He waded about near Dutch's Inn dock. Next day he put ...