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JustAnotherGen

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9. Entire town

Reply to Wicked Blue (Reply #5)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 05:00 PM

Nov 2021

https://www.app.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2014/11/26/colorful-mysterious-origins-high-school-nicknames/70114978/

Asbury Park Bishops: When manufacturer James Bradley, a Methodist, founded the town in 1871, he named it after late Bishop Francis Asbury, one of the first Methodist bishops in the U.S.

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