You are at Belmar Elementary School, stop #21 on the Belmar Treasure Trail. The historic school celebrated its centennial in 2010. A hundred years earlier, an election was held to decide if a new school should be built. Women at that time were only allowed to vote for trustees, not for appropriations. But with a vote of 99 for and 97 against, an exciting margin of two votes led to the new school, which was constructed at a cost of $57,000. High school students originally attended the school, but in 1912, it became the pre-kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school it is today. There have been expansions and improvements over the years, but the front façade has remained the quintessential brick school building that you see today. The playground on the north side is a special area dedicated to the memory of six-year- ...