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Ocean Grove is an unincorporated community and census-designated place within Neptune Township in Monmouth County, set on the Atlantic Ocean between Asbury Park to the north and Bradley Beach to the south.

Ocean Grove was founded in 1869 by Methodist clergymen led by William B. Osborn and Ellwood H. Stokes, who formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association to build a permanent Christian camp meeting site on the Jersey Shore.

Ocean Grove remains the longest continuously active camp meeting site in the United States.

In an arrangement nearly unique in America, the Camp Meeting Association still owns all of Ocean Grove's land and leases it to homeowners and businesses, originally on 99-year leases.

By the early 20th century Ocean Grove was celebrated as the "Queen of Religious Resorts," and it is often described as "God's Square Mile."

The Great Auditorium, completed in 1894 and originally built to hold crowds of up to 10,000 people, has been praised as the state's most wondrous wooden structure and remains the centerpiece of the community's summer programs.

Around the Great Auditorium stands Tent City, a colony of about 114 canvas-and-wood summer tents, many passed down through the same families for generations.

Ocean Grove was designated a State and National Historic District in 1975 and holds what has been described as the most extensive collection of Victorian and early-20th-century architecture in the United States.

Until Ocean Grove's municipal authority was folded into Neptune Township in 1981, local law banned horses, wagons and later cars from its streets on Sundays, and the beach was closed on Sundays as well.

President Ulysses S. Grant visited Ocean Grove while in office and made his last public appearance there, and Presidents Garfield, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson and Nixon also spoke on its grounds.