Town Histories in the Collections
of the MCHA Library and Archives
Please note that the Monmouth County Historical Association also has
an extensive collection of newspaper clippings, which includes files on
various Monmouth County towns. Other town history information may, depending
on the location, be found in other sources held by the Library and Archives
of the Monmouth County Historical Association.
ABERDEEN
Steen New Aberdeen or The Scotch Settlements of Monmouth County, New Jersey [1899]
See also under Matawan
ALLENHURST
Terwilliger. Inns and Cottages and Allenhurst, NJ
See also under Deal
ALLENTOWN
Storms. History of Allentown [1965]
ASBURY PARK
Bulla. Faded Resorts, Asbury Park and Sewaren: The City as Living History Museum [1999]
Pike. Asbury Park [1997]
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS
Gabrielan. Atlantic Highland Park [1991]
Gabrielan. Atlantic Highlands
Leonard. From Indian Trail to Electric Rail [1923]
AVON
Eckler. Memories of Avon-By-The-Sea
Gagen. Avon-By-The-Sea [ca. 1927]
Gensch. Avon-By-The-Sea [2000]
BAY HEAD
Downey and Schoettle. Pictorial Album
BELMAR
Roper. Belmar In Retrospect [1978]
Schnitzspahn. Belmar [1997]
Natural Resource Inventory [1995]
BRADLEY BEACH
Kinney. Bradley Beach - 1913
BRICK
Angotti. History of Brick Township
Brick Township Changing Scenes [1980]
BRIELLE
Holmquist. 50th Anniversary 1919-1969 [1969]
The Brielle Story [1961]
The History of Brielle-Union Landing Revisited [1989]
COLTS NECK
Gabrielan. Colts Neck [1998]
Miles. History of Colts Neck [2]
Thompson. Colts Neck Old Homes and Families [1990]
Know your Township Colts Neck [1976]
Newspaper Clippings
CREAM RIDGE
Honadle and Honadle. Twixt Crosswicks Creek and Burlington [2001]
DEAL
Sylvester. Around Deal Lake [1998]
The Story Of The House That Thomas White Built
Newspaper Clippings [2]
EATONTOWN
Gillingham, Jr. and Bilanin. The Story of Eatontown [1970]
Pike and Vogel.Eatontown and Fort Monmouth [1995]
Ramsay. The Story of Eatontown 1664-1964
ENGLISHTOWN
Evans and Evans. The Inn At Englishtown [1979]
See also under Manalapan
FAIR HAVEN
Gabrielan. Fair Haven [1997]
Gabrielan. Fair Haven: The Making of A Modern Town [1999]
FARMINGDALE
See under Howell
FREEHOLD
Blair. Freehold Township - The First 300 Years [1993]
Griffith. Freehold [1996]
Griffith. Freehold v. 2 [1999]
Wilbur. The Early Schools of Freehold 1667-1928 [1969]
Administrative Study [1970] (missing 2001)
Fire Department 75th Anniversary [1947]
Guide to Historic Freehold [1923] [2]
HAZLET
Longo. Hazlet Township [1998]
HIGHLANDS
King. The Highlands [1995]
King. Highlands First Settled 1678 [1996]
King. Highlands, New Jersey Historical Supplement [2001]
Highlands, NJ Diamond Jubilee 1900-1975 [1975]
Newspaper Clippings
HOLMDEL
Ceres. Holmdel and Pleasant Valley [1996]
League of Women Voters of Holmdel Township. Know Your Township Holmdel [1969]
Sketchbook of Historic Holmdel [1976]
HOWELL
Donahay. History of Howell [1967] [2]
Navarra. Howell and Farmingdale [1996]
Wainright. The Howell Iron Works and The Romance of Allaire [1925]
History of Howell
INTERLAKEN
Interlaken Journal 1922-1997 [1997]
See also under Deal
KEANSBURG
Gabrielan. Keansburg [1997]
Story of Keansburg [c. 1930]
KEYPORT
Regan. Keyport [1995]
Regan. Keyport v.2 [1997]
Regen. Keyport in the Twentieth Century [1998]
History In Connection With 100th Anniversary [1930]
LEONARDO
Bianchi. Leonardo [2002]
See also under Middletown
LINCROFT
Toop. A History Of Lincroft [1980]
LITTLE SILVER
Kennedy. A Sketchbook of Little Silver History [1972]
Schnitzspahn. Little Silver [1996]
Schnitzspahn. Little Silver, v.2 [1998]
LOCH ARBOUR
See under Deal
LONG BRANCH
Erera. NJ: A Century of Transition at a Summer Resort Community
Gabrielan. Long Branch [1998]
Entertaining A Nation - The Career of Long Branch [1940]
Long Branch and The Environs [1874] [photocopy]
MANALAPAN
Brown. Manalapan In Three Centuries [1991]
Dalik. Manalapan and Englishtown [1998]
McCabe. History of Manalapan Township [1982]
MANASQUAN
Hughes. Manasquan [1962]
Pearce. Squanians [1924]
Ware. Manasquan [1998]
Ware. Manasquan Revisited [2000]
History of Manasquan, NJ [1950]
History of Manasquan [1962]
Manasquan 1887-1987 [1987]
See also Spring Lake
MARLBORO
Barricelli and Knittel. Exploring Marlboro [1978]
Brown. History of Marlboro [1971]
Gabrielan. Marlboro Township [1999]
Handlin. Marlboro Township: A Rich History -- A Bright Future [1999]
Economic Survey Of The Township Of Marlboro [1975] [2]
MATAWAN
Crosby. Matawan 1686-1936 [1936]
Henderson. Around Matawan and Aberdeen [1996]
Hunton. A Guide to Historic Matawan [1995]
Koegler. The Burrowes Mansion of Matawan, Etc. [1978]
Tiemann. Township of Matawan 1857-1957 [1957]
MIDDLETOWN
Gabrielan. Middletown Township [The Old Photograph Series] [1994]
Gabrielan. Middletown Township v.2 [1995]
Gabrielan. Middletown Township v.3 [1997]
Gabrielan. Middletown In the Twentieth Century [2000]
Jelliffe. Achtor Coll To Zoning [1982]
Mandeville. The Story Of Middletown [1972 reprint of original 1927]
Middletown Township and NJ - 300th Anniversary In 1964 Souvenir Program [1964]
MILLSTONE
Corwin. Millstone Centennial Memorial [1866] (missing 2002)
Mount. History Of The Township of Millstone [1982]
MONMOUTH BEACH
Gabrielan. Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright [1998]
O'Brien. Monmouth Beach [1975]
MONMOUTH COUNTY
Bartlett. Monmouth County: A Pictorial Guide [1964]
Brown. Remember Old Monmouth [1974]
Gabrielan. Monmouth County, New Jersey [The Postcard History Series] [1998]
Krampf. To Monmouth With Love Yet [1972]
Leonard. Summer Homes along the Shores of Monmouth County [1903]
Lockwood. Our County - Monmouth [1974]
Moss. Monmouth - Our Indian Heritage [1976]
Rubin. Monmouth County In The Centennial Era
Smith. Sandy Hook and the Land of the Navesink [1963]
VanBenthuysen and Wilson. Monmouth County - A Pictorial History [1983]
Zaorski. Monmouth's 300th Year [1983]
A Historical Sketch of Education [1977]
A Sketch of Monmouth County 1683-1929 [1929]
Monmouth A Page In History
NEPTUNE
Lewis. Neptune and Shark River Hills [1998]
Stout. Early History of Neptune Township [1962]
Fiftieth Anniversary of Neptune Township 1879-1929
Four Score And Five 1879-1964 [1976] (Missing 2002)
NEPTUNE CITY
Cottrell. The Borough of Neptune City: A Millennium History [2002]
Cottrell. A Centennial History [1981]
OCEAN
Edelson. An Historic Perspective of the Township of Ocean [1974]
Edelson and Zimmerer. Images of America: Township of Ocean [1997]
The Township of Ocean 1849-1949 [1949]
See also under Deal
OCEAN COUNTY
Miller. Ocean County: Four Centuries in the Making [2000]
OCEAN GROVE
Bell. Ocean Grove [2000]
Brewer. Perspectives In Ocean Grove [1992]
Daniels. The Story Of Ocean Grove 1869-1919 [1919]
Pfaltz and Reed. Ocean Grove: Gods Square Mile [1986]
OCEANPORT
Oceanport In Retrospect [1970]
PLEASANT VALLEY
See under Holmdel
RED BANK
Gabrielan. Red Bank [1995]
Gabrielan. Red Bank v.2 [1996]
Gabrielan. Red Bank v.3 [1998]
Gabrielan. Red Bank In The Twentieth Century [1997]
McMahon. Red Bank Graphic 1870-1970 [1970]
Phillips. Red Bank On The Navesink [1977]
Red Bank Register Book of Facts
ROOSEVELT
Rosskam. Roosevelt, NJ [1972]
The First 50 Years 1936-1986 [1986]
RUMSON
Gabrielan. Rumson [1996]
Gabrielan. Rumson v.2 [1997]
Halsey. Reminiscences Of Early Rumson, NJ
Lanciotti. River Island: The Summer People of Barley Point [2000]
History of Rumson 1665-1965 [1965]
See also under Sea Bright
SANDY HOOK
See under Atlantic Highlands
SEA BRIGHT
Boston. The History of Sea Bright [1917]
Moss. The Early History of Sea Bright [1972]
Early Days of Sea Bright and Rumson
See also under Monmouth Beach
SEA GIRT
Butler. Sea Girt History [1926] (Missing 2003)
Venino. History of Sea Girt [1967]
See also under Spring Lake
SHARK RIVER
The Shark River District Genealogies - Shelved with general Monmouth County books
See also under Neptune
SHREWSBURY
Ayres and Briggs. Shrewsbury River Memoirs
Gabrielan. Shrewsbury [1996]
Gabrielan. Shrewsbury v.2 [1998]
Methot. Up And Down The River [1980]
The Picturesque And Historical Town Of Shrewsbury [1906]
Shrewsbury Century Homes Part 1 [1964 reprinted 1980]
SPRING LAKE
Colrick. Spring Lake [1998]
Napoliton. Spring Lake and Como - The Early Years
Wrege. An Early History [1976]
Spring Lake, Sea Girt, Manasquan And Point Pleasant And Their Points Of Interest [1895]
TINTON FALLS
Barrett. Historical Scrapbook of Tinton Falls, NJ [1976]
Gabrielan. Tinton Falls in the Twentieth Century [1999]
UNION BEACH
Buchman. Union Beach, 1925-2000 [2000]
Burket. More About Union Beach [2000]
Burket. Union Beach [1998]
UPPER FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP
Natural Resources Inventory Report, 1974
WALL TOWNSHIP
Napoliton. History Of Wall Township Police Department [1986]
Napoliton. Early Views Of Wall Township 1851-1991 [1991]
Napoliton. Wall Township [1999]
Wall Township Tercentery Committee. Wall Township 1671-1964 [1964]
WEST LONG BRANCH
Maps and VanBenthuysen. The Early History Of West Long Branch [1977]
Pike. West Long Branch [1996]
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