Atlantic Highlands roots.... New Jersey reach.
Atlantic Highlands is a small Victorian bayside community in Monmouth County. Incorporated in 1887 after being established as a Methodist camp meeting site, today it features a unique charm in its place on the Sandy Hook Bay.
Message from the founder....
I have long ties to the Borough. My maternal great great great grandfather worked as a foreman railroad car inspector for the Central Railroad of New Jersey there after serving the Union in the Civil War. Additionally, my maternal great grandmother, who I knew personally before her death in 1997 at the age of 100, moved to the Borough with her mother around the time of her grandfather's death in 1912. A graduate of the Atlantic Highlands High School class of 1915, she was involved with the fire department through her first husband Norman Paddack, until his untimely death in 1929. Later she worked as a bookkeeper for the BG Martin Construction Co., which built many of Atlantic Highlands' first homes. Then in the 1940s, she wound up marrying its proprietor Benjamin Martin, inheriting the business after his death in 1956. Finally, along with her son, Robert N. Paddack, one of the lead builders, she continued operating it into the 1980s.