When I discovered this photo of a gathering on the Stone Harbor beach, I was motivated to search my own post card collection for other images that depicted more relaxing beach scenes with people enjoying Stone Harbor’s fine bathing beach. The resultant search brought 6 more images to be featured herein, all having been postmarked...
This particular photo was discovered in the Stone Harbor Museum archives and records indicate it was taken on July 4, 1911. This image depicts a very large number of contestants, each with identifying a bib number showing they were properly registered and participating in what was becoming quite popular, “marathon” or distance racing. In fact...
In order to get to the “New” Stone Harbor in the very early days, visitors, sightseers and prospective home buyers had few options and frequently traveled by ferryboat at some point. The first image here is a colorful post card with a copyright date of 1912. Stone Harbor at this time was just making headway...
The first image provided here is a vintage post card published in 1911. The caption that appears on the front of this post card states the following information: “Head of the two-mile vehicle procession passing over Stone Harbor’s new bridge and mainland roadway, opened by Gov. Woodrow Wilson, July 3, 1911”. This is certainly quite...
