About the logo
We had hoped to conduct periodic excursions to select places in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Atlantic Highlands is a small Victorian bayside community in Monmouth County. Incoporated 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.
The tours were to be lead by a guide with long ties to the Borough. His maternal great great great grandfather was a foreman railroad car inspector for the Central Railroad of New Jersey there after serving the Union in the Civil War. Additionally, his maternal great grandmother, who he 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 bookeeper 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.
The tours were to be 1 - 2 miles in length and examine life in the Borough during the late 19th and 20th centuries through the perspective of members of this family and others associated with them. The logo comes from the aforementioned Martin household dining room chandelier.
VANPAMACS ENTERPRISES LLC is proud to keep this image and history it represents alive into the 21st century.