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Sen. Joseph McCarthy (left) chats with his attorney Roy Cohn during Senate subcommittee hearings on the McCarthy-Army dispute. United Press International telephoto. United States Library of Congress digital ID cph.3c14995, Public Domain.

October 20, 1953

Tail Gunner Joe Sets His Sights on Fort Monmouth and the Signal Corps

On October 20, 1953, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, along with his chief aide Roy Cohn, arrived at the entry to Camp Evans, the ancillary base in Wall that was part of the World War II expansion of Fort...

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Featured Monmouth County History Timelines & Stories

Original painting of Monmouth Boat Club by E. J. Bilderback, 2009. Image credit: Monmouth Boat Club, used with permission.

March 20, 1883

Monmouth Boat Club – A National Historic Site

Photo of Oscar Hammerstein mansion. Creator, date of creation, publisher and date of publication unknown. Image courtesy Ralph Bitter and Middletown Township Historical Society, used with permission.

October 16, 1929

Bootlegger Compound Raided in Former Middletown Home of Oscar Hammerstein Sr.

Photo of Holmdel horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel. (1962). United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), public domain.

October 17, 1978

Bell Labs’ Arno Penzias & Robert Wilson Are Nobel Prize Laureates

Sen. Joseph McCarthy (left) chats with his attorney Roy Cohn during Senate subcommittee hearings on the McCarthy-Army dispute. United Press International telephoto. United States Library of Congress digital ID cph.3c14995, Public Domain.

October 20, 1953

Tail Gunner Joe Sets His Sights on Fort Monmouth and the Signal Corps

October 22, 1882

When Bernard Baruch Met Lillie Langtry on Pleasure Bay

By John R. Barrows

October 24, 1936

Albert Einstein Visits Monmouth County’s New Utopian Community

by Dr. Yvette Florio Lane

Composite image of Time/Newsweek Springsteen covers. Single image composite of two cropped images to illustrate story consistent with Fair Use Doctrine.

October 27, 1975

Bruce Springsteen Appears on Covers of Time & Newsweek on the Same Week

Engraving of Joshua Huddy home in Colts Neck by Barber, John Warner, & Howe, Henry. (1844). Historical collections of the State of New Jersey: Containing a General Collection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. Relating to its History and Antiquities, with Geographical Descriptions of Every Township in the State Illustrated by 120 Engravings. Pub. for the authors, by S. Tuttle, New York, N.Y., 1844.

October 27, 1778

Joshua Huddy, Innkeeper

November 4, 1902

Laura Biggar, Fugitive Gold-Digger, Finally Turns Herself In

by John R. Barrows

The first E.C. Hazard ketchup factory in Shrewsbury before it burned in 1888. Public Domain.

November 7, 1888

E.C. Hazard’s State-of-the-Art Ketchup Factory is Destroyed by Fire

November 8, 1775

A Timeline of the Escaped Slave Titus who Became the Dreaded Loyalist Raider Colonel Tye

Sign at entrance to Huddy Park in Highlands, N.J. Photo by John R. Barrows.

November 8, 1735

A Timeline of Patriot Martyr Joshua Huddy