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Photo of Red Bank Airport Air Taxi pilots and planes posed in front of their hangar. Image credit: Dorn's Classic Images, John R. Barrows personal collection.
March 24, 1930

Red Bank Airport – An Aviation Hub for Monmouth County

Editor’s note: On March 24, 1930, the aviation facility then known as Airview Field was the scene of an accident, quite possibly for the first time, when an airplane attempting a night landing overturned, wrecking the aircraft.  Luckily, the three...
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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 – An Endangered National Historic Site

Photo of Red Bank Airport Air Taxi pilots and planes posed in front of their hangar. Image credit: Dorn's Classic Images, John R. Barrows personal collection.
March 24, 1930

Red Bank Airport – An Aviation Hub for Monmouth County

by Randall Gabrielan
March 25, 1664

Lenape Chief Sells Navesink Highlands

Philip Genovese carrying his father's casket.
March 26, 1950

Vito Genovese and His Son Run Into Trouble in Freehold

John R. Barrows
1965 South Carolina at Duke, Bob Verga drives. Created: 12 December 1964, Duke University. Public Domain
January 24, 1970

Bob Verga, Professional Basketball All-Star

Photo of Jack Nicholson, holding award, 1976 Academy Awards (cropped). Created: March 30, 1976, Los Angeles Times, used under terms of Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
March 29, 1976

Jack Nicholson Wins His First Oscar for Best Actor

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

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