Jeffrey Stanton Founding of Ocean Park, Web Document, April 6, 1998, 1904, 1903, 1900s
"Kinney's strategy was two-fold. First he made plans to create an independent municipality south of Marine Street in unincorporated County territory, and second to get rid of his partners. By September 1903, his supporters began circulating a petition proposing a new 6th class city to be called Ocean Park. An election was scheduled for February 13, 1904."