On July 31, 1879, a group of residents of the Northport Campground — the area which would one day become Bayside — created a tiny newspaper. Headed by Charles J. Burgess and J.L. Williams, the group decided to honor their coastal home, and name the publication The Sea Breeze. The paper was short in pages, but massive in content, cramming dozens of tiny-font articles into each gargantuan page. Stories detailed various goings-on, from the building of new cottages, to the arrival of great steamships, to the weddings of locals. The paper, which was published six-times seasonally, rapidly became a staple in the Campground community, gaining a large readership with relative ease. But as years passed, the paper gradually declined, eventually publishing it’s last issue over two decades later.*
Samples of the journal are included below, along with a copy of the “new” Seabreeze, published in 2020 by Baysider Aaron Cohen and his family and friends.
- The August 26, 1880 (Camp Meeting Extra, No. 2) issue of the Sea Breeze is available here.
- The July 30, 1881 (No 2, Vol 3) issue of the Sea Breeze is available here.
- The August 6, 1881 (No 3, Vol 3) issue of the Sea Breeze is available here.
- The August 4, 1883 (No 3, Vol 5) issue of the Sea Breeze is available here.
- The August 11, 1883 (No. 4, Vol 5) issue of the Sea Breeze is available here.
- The August 18, 1883 (No 5, Vol 5) issue of the Sea Breeze is avalaible here.
- The August 16, 1884 (Vol 6) issue of the Sea Breeze is available here.
- The August 15, 1885 (Vol 7) issue of the Sea Breeze is available here.
- The August 8, 1891 (Vol 13) issue of the Sea Breeze is available here.
The new Sea Breeze—released July 11, 2020—can be found here.
*With thanks to Aaron Cohen for this insightful summary of the original Sea Breeze.