What Happened On This Day In Monmouth County History?
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October 16, 1929
Bootlegger Compound Raided in Former Middletown Home of Oscar Hammerstein Sr.
On October 16, 1929, at the height of Prohibition, federal agents raided an isolated house atop the ridge in the Navesink section of Middletown, overlooking Sandy Hook Bay (pictured above...the person in the photo is unidentified). Before 1920, the house...