Excerpt from History of Atlantic City, New Jersey The Second Council; The First Jail; History of the Lighthouse; Its Cognomen - "The City by the Sea,"; First Market House; Early Struggles of the Railroad Company; The First Excursions; The First Hop; The Ice Tide of 1857; The Mosquito Plague of 1858; The Difficulty of Obtaining Good Water; First Resident Physician; Cattle Playing a Part in History; Clam Creek Fishing Company; Some of the High Tides of the Past; Recollections by Thos. Mc Adams; First City Surveys; Recollections by Mr. Bedloe; Mr. Schaufler's Early Experience; First Life-saving Station; A Chat with the First Ice Man; A Prominent Citizen's First Trip; The First Native Born; The First Board Walk; Children's Seashore House; Union League and Literary Association; The Mitchner Land Sale; Atlantic City Horse Car and Passenger Railroad; Murder and Suicide; Sad Case of Drowning; Shipwrecks and Drowning; First Marriage; The Post Offices; A Pioneer Poetess; Atlantic City's Barefoot Boy; Military Companies; The Churches; U. S. Signal Station; The Schools; Mrs. Eliza P. Guerney; The Life Savers; The City Hall; Camden and Atlantic Depot; The Fire Department; Caught in an lce Tide; Dr. Wm. Wetherell; Gas and Water Company; Opening of the Mansion; Mr. Henry Disston About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.