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May 12, 2021

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A certain house said to be located in Atlantic Highlands is the subject of two stories in the Monmouth Timeline, both related to Prohibition and smuggling. On October 16, 1929, Federal agents launched a major assault on illegal liquor in...

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Featured Monmouth County History Timelines & Stories

Photo of Sidewheeler River Queen, at the wharf. Public Domain.

March 31, 1864

SS River Queen, Revered Presidential Vessel of the Civil War

Photograph of the TIROS-1 satellite taken at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Public Domain.

April 1, 1960

TIROS-1: The World’s First Weather Satellite

Photograph of the Monmouth Patent. Image from the collections at the Monmouth County Archives. Available: https://www.monmouthcountyclerk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ABC-Book.pdf.

April 8, 1665

The Monmouth Patent

Joshua Huddy led from prison to be hanged, 1782 (c1880). A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, page 450. Public Domain.

April 12, 1782

Up Goes Huddy

Photograph of bronze commemorative tablet marking the site where Joshua Huddy was hanged in Highlands, N.J. Image credit: John R. Barrows

April 14, 1782

Outrage Over the Martyred Joshua Huddy

Photograph of rum-runner schooner Kirk and Sweeney with contraband stacked on deck. Coast guard Photo No. G-APA-01-13-24 (02) G.F. January 13, 1924, Public Domain.

April 21, 1924

The Rum Line: The Beginning of the End of Bootlegging Along the Monmouth County Shore

Manasquan High School yearbook photo of Jack Nicholson.

April 22, 1937

Jack Nicholson

April 26, 1946

George Ashby, The Last New Jersey Civil War Veteran

by Joseph G. Bilby

Photo of the Row House from The Historic Village at Allaire.

April 27, 1822

James P. Allaire Purchases Land in Monmouth County for the Howell Works Iron Foundry

Photo: A fireboat tries to put out the fires aboard the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Solar (DE-221) at the Naval Ammunition Depot Earle, 30 April 1946.

April 30, 1946

Explosion Aboard the USS Solar Kills Seven Sailors, Injures 125 More

Aerial photo of the Twin Lights Lighthouse, Highlands, N.J.

May 1, 1862

The New Twin Lights at Navesink

Photograph of Clint Black's debut album Killin' Time.

May 2, 1989

Clint Black, Country Music Superstar from Texas by Way of Long Branch