WALL: A TOWNSHIP OF MANY FACES (original) (raw)
New York|WALL: A TOWNSHIP OF MANY FACES
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- Jan. 3, 1988
THIS Monmouth County township has a rich legacy waiting to be written about, including the settlement of its westernmost village (Allenwood) and at least two Revolutionary War heroes.
Among its 20th-century residents have been the Italian electrical engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi and Russell L. Schweickart, one of the Apollo 9 astronauts.
Alyce Salmon, the township's historian, said in an interview that the Old Wall Historical Society planned to do research into and organize a one-volume history.
Allenwood was first inhabited by Lenape Indians and was settled in 1668 by Anaiah Gifford, a farmer, on what is now the state-owned Spring Meadow Golf Course, part of the 3,000-acre Allaire State Park.
As early as 1750, there was a small sawmill in what also is now the state park. A foundry operated there during the Revolutionary War.
In 1822, James P. Allaire, industrialist, inventor and protege of Robert Fulton, bought the Howell Works, as the foundry was known. He developed it into a bog-iron furnace and forge operation that, by 1836, had expanded into one of the nation's earliest planned industrial communities.
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