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RED BANK

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 967 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANK  , a borough of Monmouth county, New Jersey, U.S.A., on an estuary known as Navesink
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river, at the head ofnavigation, about 6 m . W. of the
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Atlantic Ocean, and about 25 M . S. of New York City . Pop . (1905) 6263; (1910) 7398 . Red
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Bank is served by the Central of New Jersey and the Pennsylvania
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railways, and by steamboats to New York, and is connected with the neighbouring towns by electric lines . It is a residential suburb of New York City and a summer resort . In the winter ice-boating is a popular amusement, and Red Bank has fish and
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oyster
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industries of some importance . The name Red Bank was applied to this locality as early as 1734, and in 1781 there were several buildings within the limits of the
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present borough . Red Bank was incorporated as a
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town in 187o and became a borough in 1908 .

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