Atlantic City is a coastal resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. It was incorporated on May 1, 1854, from portions of Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township. The city inspired the U.S. version of the board game Monopoly, especially the street names. Since 1921, Atlantic City has been the home of the Miss America pageant.
About Atlantic City, New Jersey in brief
Atlantic City is a coastal resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. It was incorporated on May 1, 1854, from portions of Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township. The city inspired the U.S. version of the board game Monopoly, especially the street names. Since 1921, Atlantic City has been the home of the Miss America pageant. In 2010, the city had a population of 39,558, making it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States, along with New York City and Las Vegas. The first casino opened in Atlantic City in 1976, two years after New Jersey legalized casino gambling. In 1853, the first commercial hotel, the Belloe House, was built at the intersection of Massachusetts and Atlantic Avenues. In 1903, Josiah White III bought a parcel of land near the boardwalk and built the Queen Anne style Marlborough House. The hotel was a success and in 1905, he chose to expand the hotel with a new dome, capped off with its signature chimneys, and capped off the building with a Spanish and Moorish style dome. In the early part of the 20th century,Atlantic City went through a radical building boom. Many of the modest boarding houses dotted the boardwalks were replaced with large hotels, including the Traymore-Blborough Hotel and the Traylborough Hotel. The boardwalk was expanded in length and width, and modified several times in subsequent years.
The historic length of theBoardwalk, before the destructive 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane, was about 7 miles and it extended from Atlantic City to Longport, through Ventnor and Margate. The first road connecting the city to the mainland at Pleasantville was completed in 1870 and charged a 30-cent toll. By 1874, almost 500,000 passengers a year were coming to Atlantic City by rail. The United States Hotel was not only the first hotel inAtlantic City but also the largest in the nation. It opened while it was still under construction, with only one wing standing, and even that wasn’t completed. By 1878, because of the growing popularity of the city, one railroad line could no longer keep up with demand. Soon, the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway was also constructed to transport tourists to the city. At this point, massive hotels like The United US and Surf House, as well as smaller rooming houses, had sprung up all over town. Two of the town’s most distinctive hotels were the Marenheim Hotel and The Traymore Hotel, near Ohio Avenue and Ohio Avenue. The town’s name is derived from the word “blborough” which means “blough” or “blurry” in English and “bluff” in Spanish. The name of the Marlboro Hotel was coined in 1848 by Jean-Louis Lambot, who invented the reinforced concrete, a new building material made by the firm of Price, McLanahan, and Lambot.
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