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OLD PHOTOS: Charles L. Rogers Store In Lakehurst

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From Ocean County, Four Centuries in the Making, by Pauline S. Miller:

The old boundaries of the village of Manchester became the new boundaries of Lakehurst when the borough was incorporated on April 7, 1921. The first mayor of Lakehurst was Charles L. Rogers, who worked in railroad shops and then engaged in the mercantile and lumber business.


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