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Naval Weapons Station Earle, originally known as the Naval Ammunition Depot Earle, is a United States Navy base in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Its distinguishing feature is a 2.9-mile (4.7 km) pier in Sandy Hook Bay where ammunition can be loaded and unloaded from warships at a safe distance from heavily populated areas.
Freehold Township is a township in western Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Crisscrossed by several major highways, the township is a commercial hub for Central New Jersey (home to the Freehold Raceway and Freehold Raceway Mall) and is a suburban bedroom community of New York City, located within the Raritan Valley region of the much larger New York metropolitan area.
The soil in Cream Ridge is Freehold sandy loam, some of the richest in the state of New Jersey. Many of the early residents became relatively wealthy gentleman farmers, with the actual farm work done by tenant farmers. Most of the early families were Presbyterians, Quakers, or Northern Baptists.
Across New Jersey, there have been at least 3,000 reports of drone sightings since they first were spotted around Nov. 18, according to NJ.com. One of the many bizarre drones seen over Jersey in ...
Freehold is a borough in and the county seat of Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [18] [19] Known for its Victorian era homes and extensive colonial history, the borough is located in the Raritan Valley region within the New York Metropolitan Area, located about 33 miles (53 km) from Manhattan and 17 miles (27 km) from Staten Island.
This inlet, known as Shrewsbury Inlet, was navigable for several years, but closed in 1810. On the 16th day of January, 1831, it again broke through, again became navigable, and again closed July 8th, 1848, so that no boats could pass in, since which time Sandy Hook has preserved its peninsular condition. [3]
Monmouth County (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ /) is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey.It is bordered to its west by Mercer and Middlesex Counties, to its south by Ocean County, to its east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to its north by the Raritan Bay (sharing a border with the boroughs of Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens in New York City, across it).
On October 29, Sandy lost its characteristics of a tropical cyclone and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone while approaching the New Jersey coast. About two and a half hours later, the former hurricane moved ashore New Jersey near Brigantine in Atlantic County, just north of Atlantic City, producing wind gusts as strong as 91 mph (146 ...