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Little Egg Harbor Township was formed on February 13, 1740, as Egg Harbour Township from portions of Northampton Township (now Mount Holly), while the area was still part of Burlington County. It was incorporated as one of New Jersey's 104 in the Township Act of 1798 by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.
The Affair at Little Egg Harbor took place on October 15, 1778, in South Jersey during the American Revolutionary War. American Loyalists killed 45 Patriot men, bayonetting them as they slept. The massacre took place about one week after the Battle of Chestnut Neck , a British raid aimed at suppressing privateers who used the area as a base to ...
It was originally called Egg Harbor by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests. The bay is part of the Intracoastal Waterway . The historical spelling for the bay is "Little Egg Harbour" as found on maps provide by Rutgers University: [ 1 ] 1706, 1775, 1777, 1784, 1795, 1826, and 1834.
Police in Little Egg Harbor went to an East Hudson Drive home at 4:30 a.m. on Sept. 9 after receiving a report of shots fired in the area. Officers found a 36 year-old man with several gunshot ...
Portions of the township were taken to form Little Egg Harbor Township (February 13, 1740, now part of Ocean County), Washington Township (November 19, 1802), Pemberton borough (December 15, 1826), Coaxen Township (March 10, 1845, now known as Southampton Township), Pemberton Township (March 10, 1846), Westampton Township (March 6, 1850) and ...
Meanwhile, in Little Egg Harbor, students had been off from school for the New Jersey Teachers' Convention. The school was repaired over the break, and there was an investigation that took over 30 days, sometimes during class times. The day the students returned to the school, there was live coverage from major news networks.
The district is composed of two elementary schools. The George J. Mitchell School opened in 1953 as the "Little Egg Harbor Elementary School", housing grades K-6. In 1989, a new school, the Frog Pond Elementary School opened as the "Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School", housing grades 3–6, while the Mitchell School housed grades K-2 from ...
The agency worked out of a small construction trailer on Little Egg Harbor Township property for two years before moving onto its permanent property in the township's West Tuckerton Section. Great Bay Regional Volunteer EMS celebrated the grand opening of its building on June 18, 2005, with a parade and ceremony.