100 Years of History

• Located on the Isle of Wight in the English Channel, a popular health resort and ideal holiday center grew from a small mill and inn. The town was known as VENTNOR and in the latter part of the 19th century, an American couple visiting the resort became enamored with the location. Mr. and Mrs. S. Bartram Richards suggested the name VENTNOR when the Camden and Atlantic Land Company were looking to name the area south of Atlantic City in 1889.
• The name was formally adopted on January 9, 1889 although it was not officially recognized until VENTNOR received its incorporation by the State of New Jersey on March 17, 1903.
• Chapter 51 of the laws and sessions of the State of New Jersey stated, "Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of New Jersey that all part or portion of the County of Atlantic, formerly a part of Egg Harbor Township, situate on Absecon Beach, lying between the westwardly limit of Atlantic and the eastwardly limit of South Atlantic City, the Atlantic Ocean on the south as far as the jurisdiction of the State extends and to the center of Beach Thoroughfare on the North, be, and is hereby constituted as a City of this State, and all of the inhabitants of the State residing within the limits aforesaid be an they are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be from time to time forever hereafter one body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name VENTNOR CITY. This act shall take effect immediately and was approved on March 17, 1903.
• These meetings were originally held in the Carisbrooke Inn located behind the present City Hall on Ocean Avenue.