Editing New Jersey Route 13 (section)

===Designation===
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|state=NJ
|type=NJ 1926
|county=
|route=13E
|location= [[Bay Head, New Jersey|Bay Head]]
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|formed=July 2, 1938<ref name="nj13e" />
|deleted=1953<ref name="nj1953" />
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Originally, the Lovelandtown Bridge was constructed in 1929 to create a continuous route along Bridge Avenue.<ref name="ptpleasant">{{cite web|url=http://mysite.verizon.net/ppbhistory/time_canal.htm|title=The Point Pleasant Canal|year=2009|publisher=Point Pleasant Historical Society|access-date=September 10, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010142420/http://mysite.verizon.net/ppbhistory/time_canal.htm|archive-date=October 10, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Route&nbsp;13 originated as an alignment of Ocean County Route&nbsp;13-E, a highway maintained by the county. In 1938, the state legislated a takeover of the fifth segment of the county route, a portion of highway from old [[New Jersey Route 37|Route&nbsp;37]] (now part of [[New Jersey Route 35|Route&nbsp;35]]) at Bay Head to an intersection with Beaver Dam Road, including the Lovelandtown Bridge. The route was to be {{convert|1.76|mi|km}} long,<ref name="1938law">{{cite book|last=General Assembly|first=New Jersey|title=OCEAN COUNTY ROUTE 13-E. Beginning at highway Route&nbsp;37 at Bay Head and continuing one and seventy-six one-hundredth (1.76) miles to the Beaver Dam road, in the boroughs of Point Pleasant and Bay Head, county of Ocean, and to include the Lovelandtown bridge across the Manasquan canal now under the jurisdiction of the Board of Commerce and Navigation, passing all right and title therein to the State Highway Commissioner.|publisher=New Jersey State Legislature|year=1938|pages=541–1|chapter=238}}</ref> and the designation came into effect on July 2, 1938.<ref name="nj13e">{{cite news |title=State Controls Shore Bridge |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27673828/nj_13e_july_2_1938/ |access-date=January 26, 2019 |work=The Daily Record |date=July 2, 1938 |location=[[Long Branch, New Jersey]] |page=12|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> However, the extension to Route&nbsp;37 was never constructed. In the 1953 renumbering, the state dropped the suffix and renumbered the bridge and its approaches as Route&nbsp;13. (Incidentally, the portion of Route 37 within Bay Head—running from Point Pleasant to Seaside Heights—was renumbered as Route 35 during the same highway renumbering.)<ref name="nj1953">{{Cite journal|title=1953 renumbering|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|publisher=New Jersey Department of Highways|access-date=July 31, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628183145/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|archive-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref>