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Hunting Clubs in Ocean County

Ocean County has been the site of many hunting clubs from Sportsmen’s Hotels on the Barrier Islands to duck hunting shacks on the meadows of Barnegat Bay and various Deer Hunting Clubs in the Pinelands. The following list is a work in progress and we would appreciate input on names, dates, locations and notable guides associated with each club including clubs that we have left out at this point.

The basic research on the Barnegat Bay Duck Hunting Clubs is collected in Barnegat Bay Decoys and Hunting Clubs by Patricia H. Burke, 1993, Surf Printing, Manahawkin, New Jersey. Additional research has been conducted by Kathy Conrad in association with the Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen’s Museum in Tuckerton, New Jersey. The staffs of the Ocean County Department of Parks and Recreation and the Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission have also contributed to this list.

Club Name	Type	Years	Location
"Concrete Box"	Duck Hunting	c. 1915	between Goose Bar and Barrel Island, NJ
"Cream Puff Castle" Gun Club	Duck Hunting	at least 1943-1957	Flat Creek meadows
Barnegat Rod and Gunning Club	Duck Hunting		Barnegat
Bay Ridge Gunning House	Duck Hunting	early-1900s	Barnegat
Bayside Inn (Margo's)	Duck Hunting		Manahawkin, NJ
Beck's Farm	Duck Hunting	at least 1915
Big Creek/Star Shanty
Bonnet Gun Club ("The Duck Inn" or "Martin's Box")	Duck Hunting	c. 1886 - at least 1950s	Bonnet Island, North of the Causeway, LBI, NJ
Bonnet Gunning Association (Mansion Cove Gunning Club)	Duck Hunting	Bonnet Gunning Association incorporated 1889	Surf City, NJ
Bonnet Gunning Club	Duck Hunting Club	1921	Cedar Bonnet Island, Manahawkin, NJ
Cape Horn/Bob Suralik
Carvel Island Gun Club (Surf City Gun Club)	Duck Hunting	formed 1927	Surf City, NJ
Chadwick House	Duck Hunting	at least 1875	Chadwick Beach, NJ
Channel Cove Gun Club	Duck Hunting		West Creek, NJ
Clam Island Gunning Club	Duck Hunting	1916	Barnegat Bay, NJ
Corinthian Yacht and Gun Club (formerly Beach Haven Gun Club)	Duck Hunting	1904-c. 1984	Marine Street and Beach Avenue, Beach Haven, NJ
Crab Island
Daniel Island/Jay Parker's Houseboat	Duck Hunting
Dinner Point Gun Club	Duck Hunting	at least 1975-1985	Great Bay
Dog Island
Drag Sedge Gun Club	Duck Hunting
Eagle Bay
Egg Island
Elder Point
Fish Factory
Flat Creek Gun Club ("Hilton")	Duck Hunting
Fresh Creek Gun Club	Duck Hunting	at least 1973
Go Through Creek (Jack Webb's Gun Club, Ray Kennedy Houseboat, Rodger West Houseboat)	Duck Hunting		West of Marshelder Point, last bridge - left side, NJ
Goose Cove/Mullica River
Grassy Bay
Gunning River Gun Club	Duck Hunting		Barnegat
Half Moon/Wading River
Happy Days Gunning Club	Duck Hunting	c. 1920	Rt. 72 Causeway, Long Beach Island, NJ
Harvey Sedges Islands Assocation, Inc.	Duck Hunting	incorporated 1930s	Barnegat Bay
Hester Sedge Gun Club		1926	Hither Island, Ocean County, NJ
Hester Sedge Gun Club	Duck Hunting	incorporated 1920s	Great Bay, NJ
High Bar Fishing and Gunning Club	Duck Hunting	1916	High Bar Sedge Islands and Sheepshead Shoal
Hither Island Gun Club	Duck Hunting	c. 1890
Hoffman Point
Island Beach (Reed Hotel or Haring Hotel)	Duck Hunting	mid-1800s	Nine Mile or Island Beach, Below Ortley Beach
Italian American Sportsman Club now known as The American Sportsmen Club of New Jersey	Deer Hunting	1935	200 Route 539, Whiting, NJ
Little Beach
Little Beach Club	Duck Hunting	at least 1920s-1990	off of Barnegat Inlet on Little Beach meadows
Little Crooked Thorofare
Little Island Gun Club	Duck Hunting		off of Beach Haven, NJ
Log Creek Pond (Herchel "Skinny" Abbott Gun Club or Cy Cranmer's Cabin)	Duck Hunting
Long Point/Breezy Inn	Duck Hunting	early-1900s- January 20, 1921	Long Point at Parker's Run, Parkertown, NJ
Main Point Gun Club	Duck Hunting		Manahawkin, NJ
Main Point Gun Club	Duck Hunting
Marshelder Island Gun Club	Duck Hunting
Middle Island Gun Club	Duck Hunting	early-1900s- c. 1990s	Great Bay, NJ
Mill Creek Gun Club	Duck Hunting	at least 1952	Manahawkin, NJ
Peahala Gun Club	Duck Hunting	c. 1860-June 7, 1940	Peahala Park, one mile south of Brant Beach, NJ
Pettit Point Gun Club (Bill Oilder Gun Club)	Duck Hunting		Petttit Point, NJ
Sandy Island Gun Club	Duck Hunting	incorporated 1922-rebuilt after Febraury 9, 1994 fire
Sedge Island Gunning Club	Duck Hunting	c. 1902	Great Sedge Islands, Island Beach State Park
Seven Island Gun Club
Sheepshead Creek	Duck Hunting		Tuckerton, NJ
Shelter Island (Johnny Cranmer & Harvey Parker's Houseboat)	Duck Hunting	early-1900s	Shelter Island, Little Egg Harbor, NJ
Story Island Gun Club	Duck Hunting
Turtle Cove Gun Club	Duck Hunting		South Shore of Turtle Cove, North of Causeway Bridge to LBI, Stafford Township, NJ
Turtle Cove Gunning Club	Duck Hunting	1942	Turtle Cove, Manahawkin, NJ
Turtle Creek Gun Club	Duck Hunting		Barnegat, NJ
Uncle Jakey's Tavern	Duck Hunting	1811	Mantoloking, NJ
Uncle Tommy Cook's	Duck Hunting	1872	Point Pleasant, NJ
Wally Chapman Club House	Duck Hunting		North Shore of Turtle Cove, NJ
Waretown Rod and Gun Club			Waretown, NJ
Whale Bone Gun Club (off shoot of Clam Island Gun Club)	Duck Hunting
Woods Island Gun Club ("The Bungalow")	Duck Hunting	1903-destroyed by fire 1932	Woods Island, Harvey Cedars, NJ

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