Five NJ towns started as Methodist camps — I only knew three

That tree still exists, preserved inside the Ocean City Tabernacle. Pitman NJ | Google Maps Pitman NJ | Google MapsPitman's grove is the clearest living fingerprint of all of themPitman was founded two years before Ocean City, in 1871, as its own South Jersey Methodist camp meeting resort. It's the actual bones of an 1870s religious resort, still standing. James Bradley founded Asbury Park in 1871, right after visiting Ocean Grove and converting to Methodism himself. But Asbury Park was never a camp meeting association town.