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Manahawkin Baptist Church, also known as the Free Church of Manahawkin, is a historic church in the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township in Ocean County, New Jersey. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1973, for its significance in education, military history, and religion.
The downtown portion of Main Street is widely recognizable due to its use by Norman Rockwell in his 1967 painting, Main Street, Stockbridge at Christmas. The central portion of Main Street is a broad street with wide green lawns, anchored by a traditional New England town center containing a church and municipal buildings.
Manahawkin is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [9] located within Stafford Township, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [10] [11] [12] As of the 2020 United States census, the CDP's population was 2,413, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 110 (+4.8%) from the 2,303 recorded at the 2010 census, [13] which in turn had reflected an ...
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The Congregational Church of West Stockbridge is located in the village of West Center, on the east side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 102) at its junction with Old Barrington Road. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gable-roofed cruciform plan.
Stafford Township is a township situated on the Jersey Shore in southern Ocean County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 28,617, [9] [10] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 2,082 (+7.8%) from the 26,535 recorded at the 2010 census, [18] [19] which in turn reflected an increase of 4,003 (+17.8%) from the ...
Stockbridge was the home of Elizabeth Freeman, a freed slave, late in her life. The former slave engaged the attorney Theodore Sedgwick to file a freedom suit on her behalf, based on the statements in the new state constitution in 1780. In the case with a slave named Brom, the county court ruled that they were both free under the constitution.
West Stockbridge is 11 miles (18 km) south-southwest of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 50 miles (80 km) west-northwest of Springfield, 132 miles (212 km) west of Boston, and 36 miles (58 km) southeast of Albany, New York. West Stockbridge is situated along the Williams River, a marshy tributary of the Housatonic River. To the northeast, West ...