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Women's Auxiliary Corps recruiting poster.
May 22, 1919

Gender Integration of the Army Advanced at Fort Monmouth

Editor’s note: On May 22, 1919, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett presented the Distinguished Service Medal to Grace D. Banker of Passaic, N.J., at U.S. Army Headquarters in Coblenz, Germany, during World War I. Her citation read, in part,...
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Featured Monmouth County History Timelines & Stories

Annotated map of Coopers Ferry, June 1778.
May 3, 1778

Battle of Monmouth – How It Begins

Count Basie Orchestra film still from Air Mail Special soundie, 1941, Institute of Jazz Studies photograph collection (IJS.0048), Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University Libraries. Original image held by Herrick Library, Los Angeles.
May 4, 1959

Count Basie Wins Two of the First-Ever Grammy Awards

by John R. Barrows
May 4, 1902

Booker T. Washington Comes To Red Bank For Historic Meeting with T. Thomas Fortune

Engraving: "The Ceres, Our Guardian Angel." Creator unknown.
May 5, 1864

USS Ceres – The Little Tugboat That Became A War Hero

Photograph of wall of names of those from New Jersey who lost their lives in Vietnam. Image credit: New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial and Vietnam Era Museum.
May 7, 1995

The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial

Photo of sheet music score to the song "Monmouth County." Photos and text courtesy of the Archives Division of the Monmouth County Clerk.
May 17, 1923

Monmouth County’s Official Song is “Monmouth County”

Postcard image of the original Twin Lights of Navesink.
May 18, 1826

The Original Twin Lights of Navesink

Aerial photograph of The Reservation, a beachfront residential development in Long Branch.
May 19, 1887

The Reservation

by Randall Gabrielan
Image: C. Maury Jones of Red Bank flying above his aviators as commanding officer of the 28th Aero Squadron in France, 1917. Original illustration by Charlie Swerdlow, History Depicted, ©2024, commissioned by Monmouth Timeline.
March 26, 1917

Maury Jones of the Lafayette Flying Corps

by Mark A. Wallinger
Photo of Nike missile disaster memorial at Sandy Hook.
May 22, 1958

Middletown Nike Ajax Missile Explosion Kills 10

John R. Barrows
Women's Auxiliary Corps recruiting poster.
May 22, 1919

Gender Integration of the Army Advanced at Fort Monmouth

by Melissa Ziobro
Maple Hall, now home to the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center in Red Bank.
May 23, 2019

The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center in Red Bank

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