St. Michael's Catholic Church Long Branch NJ

Founded in 1886, St. Michael's Church owes its origin to the expressed  needs of the times.  Its presence offered a spiritual oasis for the ever  increasing number of  largely Irish Catholic female servants working in  local non-Catholic households, as well as in the nearby hotels, casinos,  and race tracks  that once dotted the landscape of Long Branch's West End and Elberon.  At the time of the church's construction, there was a road, estimated to be approximately one New York City block long, extending out from the church to the Atlantic Ocean.