Historical Marker
Liver Eating Johnson
Historical marker location:
Pattenburg, New Jersey
( Marker is at the intersection of Bloomsbury Road (County Route 579 at milepost 33.5) and Pattenburg Road (County Route 614), on the right when traveling west on Bloomsbury Road.)
Marker installed: 2010
The first recorded boardwalk in the world was built in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1870. The boardwalk was originally constructed as a way to keep sand out of the city's hotels and railway cars.