He later opened Poppinger’s Hotel on South Street. The borough’s first legal bar was actually a boat operated by Peter Poppinger in 1878, who would sail to South Street in Sea Bright and run a plank ashore to sell his booze – all with an official license. Charles Reed, was Sea Bright’s first dentist. Shropshire: Sea Bright’s first physician was Dr. Some SB history notes, from a September 1951 Daily Register profile of local historian, Mrs. He also set up the original Octagon Hotel and Peninsula House Hotel. A true wheeler-dealer, Paul also brought the railroad to town and built the Long Branch-Seabright Turnpike (essentially Ocean Avenue). At that time, Sea Bright was “an undeveloped strip of sand” and not a single house existed. Conover to buy much of the area and plotted it out.
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