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Digital Image: 1894 National View Bird's-Eye View Map of Port au Peck, Oceanport, New Jersey
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Port au Peck. Near Long Branch. Monmouth Co. New Jersey.
1894 (undated) 22 x 27.5 in (55.88 x 69.85 cm)
1894 (undated) 22 x 27.5 in (55.88 x 69.85 cm)
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William W. Conover (October 2, 1826 - December 18, 1896), a.k.a. 'Black Bill', was a New Jersey landowner and real estate developer active in the late 19th century. Conover was from a wealthy family based in Red Bank, New Jersey. He made a fortune in cattle, reportedly owning one of the 'largest droves in this country'. Contemporaries describe him as a rough-spoken man with 'no pretense of goodness or charity', but claim this crude exterior hid a big heart, and those who owed him gratitude were innumerable. He was also an ardent abolitionist who served the Union cause during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865) with such rigorous brutality that he earned the nickname 'Black Bill'. For our purposes, he was also keenly interested in real estate. He was instrumental in developing Rumson as a resort of the elite and, in his waning years, duplicated the feat with the acquisition of a large farm, some 360 acres, in Port-au-Peck. His funeral in Red Bank was recorded at the time as the county's largest. More by this mapmaker...
National View (fl. c. 1892 - 1897) was an American publisher of lithographic bird's-eye city views active in the late 19th century. Most of their work focuses on real estate developments in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and northeastern New Jersey. They were based at 36 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. We can find little on the company, although the address, 36 Columbus, seems to have hosted a number of small printing and lithographing firms, among them Blanchard and Watts Engraving, and the American Art Society, both of which would have been contemporaneously in the location with National View. Learn More...
References
Library of Congress G3814.O4:2P6A3 1895 .N3 (Damaged). OCLC 1048657206.