Monmouth

Freehold from Tennent, NJ

Fought June 28, 1778, by the armies of Washington and Clinton.

Shrewsbury, NJ

Converts of George Keith, 1702, became nucleus of Episcopalian Congregation Incorporated in 1738.

Sept., 1780, Tories, under the notorious Col. Tye, plundered the house of Capt. Joshua Huddy.

Three Cox brothers lived near here the descendant of one was a general in the revolution; of another a presidential candidate.

General Washington established hospitals at the old Tennent Church, the parsonage, and the Court House, which stood about on the same...

Site of summer home of Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1884.

Built in 1755. Occupied by British Commander, Sir Henry Clinton, June 27, 1778, the day before the Battle of Monmouth

The minisink or Great Mohawk Trail and the Burlington Path met here.

The borough of Highlands, NJ

The first trans-Atlantic wireless telegraph tower in the United States was erected here in 1907.

Middletown from Keyport, NJ

When near Freehold, before the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, Washington and some of his men rode through this district on a...

Early settlement within Monmouth patent, which was granted in 1665 by Gov. Nichols to 12 men from New England and Long Island.

Battle fought June 28, 1778, was a victory for Washington over British and Hessians, who had evacuated Philadelphia.

Home of Dr. William A. Newell, founder of Life Saving Service, 1840's. Later Governor, New Jersey, and of Washington Territory

Developed as a plantation in 1689 by Lewis Morris, cousin of later governor.

Famous pioneer woman, survivor of Indian attack, later wife of one of the founders of middletown.

"Poet of the revolution" and Jeffersonian Editor. His home, Mount Pleasant, burned here in 1818.

Poet of the Revolution. Some two miles to the south was "Mt.

First meeting house of Shrewsbury, built by the Friends in 1672, this building 1816.

Near this site in 1932, Bell Labs.

Front of club, NJ

Oldest tennis and cricket club in the United States.

Front of, NJ

On April 8, 1665, Governor Richard Nicolls, of New York, granted the Monmouth Patent to twelve men from Rhode Island and Gravesend, Long...

Tinton Falls, NJ

Trolly lines covered many states in early 1900's. One could board a car here and reach New York or Philadelphia.

Here on July 10, 1962, the Bell Laboratories received the first telecast from their satellite telstar.

Touched by history for nearly three centuries, this house witnessed the revolution, sheltering its Quaker loyalist owners and offivers of...

Englishtown, NJ

Built in 1732. Here, after the Battle of Monmouth, Washington ordered the arrest of Lee, who had disobeyed battle orders.