Battery Gunnison
Battery Gunnison, later called Battery New Peck, is a six inch coast artillery battery located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
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Highlands is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 5,005, reflecting a decline of 92 (-1.8%) from the 5,097 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 248 (+5.1%) from the 4,849 counted in the 1990 Census. It is the home town of film maker, director, and comic book writer Kevin Smith. The eastern part of the town is built on a high bluff that overlooks Sandy Hook and the Atlantic Ocean, from which the borough derives its name.
Population: 5,005
Latitude: 40° 24' 13.39" N
Longitude: -73° 59' 29.51" W
Articles of interest in Highlands, New Jersey
391 Articles of interest near Highlands, New Jersey, United States
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The Poillon-Akerly-Omsted Farmhouse was a large farm and modest Dutch farmhouse on one of the higher hills overlooking Raritan Bay, and Sandy Hook in the distance on Staten Island purchased by Olmsted's father and given to Frederick Law Olmsted in 1…
Action of 31 July 1793
The Action of 31 July 1793 was an inconclusive engagement between a British Royal Navy frigate and French frigate off the New Jersey coastline in the first year of the French Revolutionary Wars. The British captain, George Courtenay of HMS Boston, h…
William T. Boylan Gymnasium
William T. Boylan Gymnasium is a 2,500-seat multi-purpose arena in West Long Branch, New Jersey. It was built in 1965 and was home to the Monmouth University Hawks basketball team.
Wentworth Avenue (Staten Island Railway station)
Wentworth Avenue was a station on the demolished South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. It had one side platform served by one track. This platform was only a door's length, and had to be keyed open by the conductor.
Union Beach School System
The Union Beach School System is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Union Beach, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
The Stephens-Black House
The Stephens-Black House is a 19th-century house featured in Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island, New York City.
South Beach (Staten Island Railway station)
South Beach was a station on the demolished South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway. It had two tracks and two side platforms. It closed on March 31, 1953, along with the North Shore Branch and the rest of the South Beach Branch.
Shrewsbury Borough School District
The Shrewsbury Borough School District is a community public school district that serves students ranging from pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from Shrewsbury, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
Sheepshead Bay Houses
The Sheepshead Bay/Nostrand Houses housing projects are located in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, New York, bounded by Nostrand Avenue, Bragg St., Avenue V and Avenue X. Avenue W and Batchelder Street run through the development to divide i…
Shark River Inlet
The Shark River Inlet is an inlet that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Shark River, located entirely in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The Shark River Inlet acts as a border between the towns of Belmar and Avon-by-the-Sea at the At…
Norwood Country Club
Norwood Country Club was an exclusive golf club in West Long Branch, New Jersey during the 1920s.
Lemon Creek (Staten Island)
Lemon Creek is a stream located on the South Shore of Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City.
John Bennett House
The John Bennett House was built in 1839 with an addition built in 1854, was built as part of a real estate development near the Third County Courthouse in Historic Richmondtown, Staten Island, New York. This Greek Revival style residence was home t…
Indian Hill School, New Jersey
Indian Hill School is a three-year elementary school located in Holmdel Township, New Jersey.
Hillel Yeshiva, New Jersey
Hillel Yeshiva is a private Modern Orthodox Jewish day school located in Ocean Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
Fort Wadsworth (Staten Island Railway station)
Fort Wadsworth was a station on the demolished South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway, near the historic Fort Wadsworth. It had two side platforms and two tracks.
Flagstaff Fort
A Patriot Redoubt built in June 1776, located on Signal Hill at the narrows on Staten Island. Site of an earlier 1663 blockhouse (not named or listed). Taken by the British in 1776 and by July 1779 a redoubt with gun platforms for 26 cannon were bui…