American Beach is what founder Abraham Lincoln Lewis called, ”Recreation and relaxation without humiliation.” RELATED | Anonymous donor gives $500,000 to help preserve dune at historic ...

The Beach Lady’s fight to preserve the American beach and prevent overdevelopment lives on. The largest sand dune in Florida that she named Nana, is now protected by the National Park Service.

American Beach was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 thanks to the preservation efforts of A.L. Lewis' great-granddaughter and renowned opera singer MaVynee Oshun Betsch, ...

American Beach homeowners say they hope an injunction against beach driving will convince the county to put in place a permanent ban. "This is the only neighborhood that you drive through to get ...

American Beach has long-been a driving beach, but this change would be consistent with the rest of the county. None of the other places in the county where you can drive on the beach are ...

For American Beach, it's another chapter in a history that began in 1935 when Abraham Lincoln Lewis, a co-founder of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company, founded the beach resort.

In a letter dated February 6th, the legal team for Save Historic American Beach issued a 60-day notice to Nassau County to address possible violations of the Endangered Species Act.