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Wall Township is a Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 25,261.
Allenwood (2000 census population of 935) and West Belmar (2,606) are census-designated places and unincorporated areas located within Wall Township.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 81.4 km² (31.4 mi²). 79.3 km² (30.6 mi²) of it is land and 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²) of it (2.55%) is water.
History
The township of Wall is named for Garret D. Wall, a lawyer who commanded a Trenton volunteer company during the War of 1812 and was stationed at Sandy Hook. Wall served five years as clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court and as quartermaster general of the state for more than 20 years.
1776 Glendola Protestant Bible Church is built. A new church is dedicated in 1964.
1822 Allaire Village, formerly the original "Howell Works," is established.
1830 Christ Church in Allaire is erected by James P. Allaire to serve the ironworkers and their families at his bustling Howell Works.
1834 Wall United Methodist Church starts worship.
1840 The Allgor-Barkalow Homestead at 1701 New Bedford Road is built, although some accounts indicate construction of part of the building began in the 18th century. The building now houses the museum of the Old Wall Historical Society.
1851 The township of Wall is formed from a portion of Howell.
1855 The Blansingburg schoolhouse at Sea Girt Avenue is in session. The building is relocated in 1999 to the Allgor-Barkalow Homestead Museum property for refurbishing.
August 1895 Allenwood Protestant Church on Allaire-Allenwood Road is dedicated.
Around 1900 The newly formed Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, with its home office in England, purchases a 93-acre farm from a Mr. Woolley. The farm becomes the site of the company's receiver equipment for commercial transatlantic radio operation.
February 1907 The Glendola Grange is established.
January 1921 The Allenwood Hospital, Squankum and Allenwood roads, opens primarily as a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. In 1957, a 16-room building is dedicated to Geraldine L. Thompson, who served as president of the hospital's board of managers. In the 1960s, the facility becomes an annex to the John L. Montgomery Medical Home in Freehold, a county-run nursing home, and is renamed the Geraldine L. Thompson Medical Home.
1924 The Marconi signal site is abandoned.
1925 Allenwood General Store, Allenwood-Lakewood Road, is built.
1927 The Marconi signal site is inhabited by the Ku Klux Klan. They are ejected in March 1928.
1938 Richard Hinck starts raising turkeys on his farm on Belmar Boulevard.
September 1939 Wall First Aid is organized. Now known as Wall Township First Aid & Rescue Squad.
1940 Using an old World War I tank that he converted into a bulldozer, Edward I. Brown begins clearing a vast scrub-pine tract off Route 34 for an airport. After serving as a Navy pilot during World War II, Brown resumes work on building his airport -- today's Allaire Airport -- in 1945.
February 1940 Mrs. Arthur Brisbane gives Allaire Village and surrounding tract to the New Jersey Department of Conservation and Development to create a recreational park area.
November 1941 The United States Army purchases the Marconi site and renames it Camp Evans after Col. Paul Wesley Evans, a World War I signal officer.
1940s The Roadside Diner, formerly the Circle Diner and Rusty's, is delivered to its Route 34 site by the Silk City Diner Co. The diner is used for filming of a scene for the 1983 movie Baby It's You (film)|]] and also appears on the cover of the 1994 Bon Jovi album "Cross Road: 14 Classic Grooves."
May 1950 Wall Stadium Speedway Track opens on Route 34.
1953 The Circus Drive-In restaurant on Route 35 opens for business.
1954 Exit 98 opens on the Garden State Parkway giving high speed motor vehicle access to New York City
September 1959 Wall High School opens.
January 1960 Turkey shoots, long an autumn tradition in Wall, are legalized.
June 1961 Thirty-two people are injured by an explosion of a boiler at a bingo game held at the Fireman's Hall, 16th Avenue and Route 71.
July 1961 The Wall Public Library opens.
March 1962 A man from Long Branch dies in the collapse of a well being dug on a farm on Hamilton-Glendola Road as tons of dirt and sand caved in on him.
March 1964 The Lexington Furniture Co. Showroom on Route 35 is wrecked by a raging fire.
March 1965 Air Lanes Bowling Alley is destroyed by a spectacular fire.
October 1971 The Planning Board grants approval for an industrial park on Route 34.
July 1973 The Collingwood Circle Center, which houses the Wall Indoor Racquet Club and Ice arena at Route 33 and Shafto Road, opens.
1974 The Wall Herald is launched by Monmouth County Airport owner Ed Brown. He sells it in 1997 and the name is changed to the Shore Herald.
May 1976 The Josiah I. Allen house on Allenwood-Lakewood Road, which stood for more than 200 years, is destroyed by fire.
June 1976 Peddler's Village opens at Route 35 and Atlantic Avenue. Two fires, in July 1979 and June 1980, damage stores there. In 1988, the business is converted to a factory outlet center called Circle Factory Outlet.
1981 Interstate 195 is extended into Wall Township giving direct high speed access to Trenton, the State capital.
January 1981 Fire destroys the 54-year-old restaurant landmark Le Deauville Inn, located on Gully and Remsen Mill roads in the Glendola section.
February 1988 The Ocean Gate Restaurant, formerly the Country Squire Diner on Route 35, is destroyed in an early morning fire.
October 1988 A Brick Township man who spent more than nine years building a small-engine plane is killed when the aircraft, on its maiden flight, crashes at the edge of a wooded area on Squankum Road.
September 1988 At a kickoff dinner at Wall High School, state Attorney General Cary Edwards says the township is "ahead of the rest of the state" in its formation of the Wall Township Community Alliance Committee for the purpose of fighting drug abuse.
January 1991 The Manasquan Reservoir System Water Treatment Plant on Hospital Road is dedicated.
December 2000 The American Civil Liberties Union sues the township over its holiday display, contending that the religious symbols violate the constitutional separation of church and state.
(Source: http://orig.app.com/day/story/0,2379,354676,00.html)
For more, visit (http://www.wallnj.com/history1.htm).
See Camp Evans for information about the Marconi Wireless Belmar Station (inhabited by the United States Navy and the Ku Klux Klan), The King's College, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Black history, the development of Radar, Joseph McCarthy and other items of Wall Township History.
Demographics
As of the census² of 2000, there were 25,261 people, 9,437 households, and 6,926 families residing in the township. The population density was 318.5/km² (825.1/mi²). There were 9,957 housing units at an average density of 125.6/km² (325.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the township was 97.09% White, 0.61% African American, 0.10% Native American, 1.26% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.32% from other races, and 0.58% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.55% of the population.
There were 9,437 households out of which 33.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.0% were married couples living together, 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.6% were non-families. 22.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.14.
In the township the population was spread out with 25.2% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 26.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 92.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.4 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $73,989, and the median income for a family was $83,795. Males had a median income of $61,022 versus $37,011 for females. The per capita income for the township was $32,954. About 1.7% of families and 2.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.5% of those under age 18 and 2.9% of those age 65 or over.
Government
Local government
Wall is governed under the Township form of government, which is the oldest form of government in New Jersey, having been first established in 1798, and enhanced by the Township Act of 1989. All committee members are elected at large. Each year, at the annual reorganization meeting, the Township Committee selects one of its members to preside as mayor for the year, and another to serve as deputy mayor. It is the only form of government in which the mayor is not elected directly by the voters of the municipality. There are 11 municipalities in Monmouth County using the Township form of government.The Wall Township Committee consists of Mayor Mary L. Burne , Deputy Mayor John W. Tobia, John Devlin, Robert D. Peters and Edward H. Thomson, III.
Federal, state and county representation
Wall Township is in the Fourth Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 11th Legislative District.
External links
- Wall Township website
- Wall Township Public Schools
- Wall Township Police Department
- Wall Community First Aid Squad
- Wall Township First Aid & Rescue Squad
- www.infoage.org: Information on the former Marconi Wireless/Camp Evans site and the science center being established there.
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