Editing Bay Head, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[File:LeavittHowe.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Leavitt Howe, founder with brother Edward Howe and two others of Bayhead Land Company, developers of Bay Head]]
The Bayhead Land Company was incorporated on September 6, 1879, capitalized at $12,000. The founding partners were David H. Mount of Rocky Hill, and three Princeton men: Edward Howe, his brother Leavitt Howe and William Harris. Within several years, the resort had grown in population, with a seawall installed, roads built and graded. In 1882, Bay Head had 20 new cottages and a population of 75.

The first post office was established in Bay Head in the summer of 1882. Julius Foster was first postmaster.<ref>Salter, Edwin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XqchvDnzm0wC&pg=PA286 ''Salter's History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties New Jersey, Embracing a Genealogical Record of Earliest Settlers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and Their Descendants''], p. 286. reprinted by [[Heritage Books]], 1997. {{ISBN|1585494380}}. Accessed March 20, 2012. "A Postoffice was established at Bay Head in the Summer of 1882, Julius Foster, Postmaster."</ref>

The [[Bay Head Historic District]], listed in the New Jersey and the National Registers of Historic places in 2005, includes over 550 contributing structures (over half of the town's buildings) making it one of the largest historic districts in New Jersey.<ref>Salter, Edwin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XqchvDnzm0wC&pg=PA286 ''Salter's History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, New Jersey''], p. 286. Reissued by Heritage Books, 2007.</ref> Bay Head's historic district is architecturally significant for its large collection of well-preserved [[Shingle style architecture|Shingle style]], [[Stick Style]], and [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne style]] structures.

The {{convert|1,260|m}} stone rubble seawall built in 1882, which had been buried by dunes and largely forgotten, played a role in reducing damage to the town by [[Hurricane Sandy]].<ref name="Coastal Engineering">{{cite journal|last=Irish|first=Jennifer L.|author2=Patrick J. Lynett |author3=Robert Weiss |author4=Stephanie M. Smallegan |author5=Wei Cheng |title=Buried relic seawall mitigates Hurricane Sandy's impacts|journal=Coastal Engineering|date=October 2013|volume=80|pages=79–82|doi=10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.06.001|bibcode=2013CoasE..80...79I }}</ref><ref name="Science News">{{cite news|title=Long-Buried Seawall Protected Homes From Hurricane: Sandy's Record Storm Surge Virginia Tech researchers say relic seawall came in handy for New Jersey town|url=http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/605408/|access-date=July 16, 2013|newspaper=Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)|date=July 16, 2013|agency=Newswise}}</ref>