Harvey Cedars

A 1751 deed calls the locality that became Harvey Cedars "a hammock and clump of cedars called Harvest Quarters," and Margaret Thomas Buchholz's history on the borough's website traces the name to that phrase, not to a man named Harvey. The borough was incorporated in 1894, when men living near the Harvey Cedars Hotel seceded from Union Township, now Barnegat Township on the mainland. It had 391 residents at the 2020 census. The part of the borough north of Sussex Avenue was called High Point, a name the U.S. Post Office instructed the borough to drop in the early 1930s. It survives in the High Point Volunteer Fire Company, organized on June 19, 1937.

The Harvey Cedars Hotel opened as a Bible conference on August 1, 1941, and the conference dates the building's first section to a house built around 1837. The life-saving station house begun in 1901 and completed in 1902 is now the Long Beach Island Fishing Club's clubhouse. In 1962 a 3-day northeaster cut inlets through the borough at 79th Street and Bergen Avenue. Buchholz puts the loss at some 350 homes. Sunset Park occupies meadowland along Harvest Cove that the borough preserved after that storm.