History
The Ocean Highway was first authorized in 1909 and was New Jersey's first state highway. It was reauthorized in 1910, and it was under that legislation that any appropriations were made, and that any construction was to take place.
In 1916, legislation was passed authorizing the extension of the Ocean Highway west from Atlantic Highlands to Matawan Creek, but it is unlikely that this was ever acted upon, as later that year (The Egan Bill) legislation was passed establishing a system of numbered state highways that replaced the Ocean Highway with Route 4, which took a more inland route through Monmouth County and extended only as far south as Absecon. The 1917 Edge Bill created Route 14, which followed the old Ocean Highway route from Seaville to Cape May, as well as the Petersburg Spur.
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