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Monmouth Battlefield State Park is a 1,818-acre (7.36 km 2) [4] New Jersey state park located on the border of Manalapan and Freehold Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. This park preserves the historical battlefield on which the American Revolutionary War 's Battle of Monmouth (1778) was waged.
It is a contributing property of the Monmouth Battlefield State Park, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. [10] The Craig House was restored to its Revolutionary War era appearance in 1993 (thanks in part to the advocacy of preserving historic structures at Monmouth Battlefield, by the Friends of Monmouth ...
Nearly 250 years ago, Monmouth Battlefield State Park was home to one of the longest battles of the Revolutionary War, which was a crucial turning point. George Washington faced many defeats a ...
RevolutionNJ is hosting a series of 5Ks and 1 mile walks.The first one takes place Saturday at Monmouth Battlefield State Park. Above, a member of the Freehold Township High School band heads to ...
Gov. Phil Murphy announced state plans to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States during an event at Monmouth Battlefield State Park.
In 1963, the first tract of battlefield land came under state ownership with the purchase of a 200-acre farm. The Monmouth Battlefield State Park was dedicated on the bicentennial of the battle in 1978 and a new visitor center was opened in 2013. By 2015, the park encompassed over 1,800 acres, incorporating most of the land on which the ...
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2 )—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
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