Previously referred to as Long Beach City borough, Surf City was renamed by referendum in 1899. Home to one of the earliest big boarding hotels on the Jersey Shore, called the Mansion of Health. The area around the Hotel was called Buzby’s place, after it’s owner Hudson Buzby. The Mansion of Health burned down in 1874 but many old-timers still call the cove at the foot of South First Street on the bay side “Mansion Cove.”