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Wall Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 26,164,〔〔〔 reflecting an increase of 903 (+3.6%) from the 25,261 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 5,017 (+24.8%) from the 20,244 counted in the 1990 Census.〔(Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010 ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed August 9, 2012.〕 Wall Township was formally incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 7, 1851. Over the years, portions of the township have been taken to form North Spring Lake (May 1884), Ocean Beach (March 9, 1885, now Belmar), Manasquan (December 30, 1887), Spring Lake (March 14, 1892), Sea Girt (March 29, 1917), Brielle (April 10, 1919), South Belmar (March 12, 1924, now Lake Como) and Spring Lake Heights (March 19, 1927).〔Snyder, John P. (''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968'' ), Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 186–187. Accessed January 22, 2012.〕〔Honeyman, Abraham Van Doren. (''Index-analysis of the Statutes of New Jersey, 1896-1909: Together with References to All Acts, and Parts of Acts, in the 'General Statutes' and Pamphlet Laws Expressly Repealed: and the Statutory Crimes of New Jersey During the Same Period'' ), p. 311. New Jersey Law Journal Publishing Company, 1910. Accessed October 20, 2015.〕 Wall Township was named for General Garret D. Wall (1783-1850), 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 before being chosen to represent the state in the United States Senate from 1835 to 1841.〔Harnes, John A. ("Book offers glimpses of Wall history Glimpses of Wall history" ), ''Asbury Park Press'', July 27, 1999. Accessed December 13, 2012.〕〔〔Hutchinson, Viola L. (''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names'' ), New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed October 20, 2015.〕 ==History== The Greenville Cemetery was established in 1734, when a casualty of the French and Indian War was buried there. The original structure of the Glendola Protestant Bible Church was built in 1776; The congregation dedicated a new church in 1964. Allaire Village dates back to 1822, when James P. Allaire purchased what became known as the Howell Works in Wall, and though it was the largest producing bog iron manufacturing site in New Jersey by 1836, the ironworks were shut down in 1846. The village and surrounding acres were later preserved and gifted to the State of New Jersey to form Allaire State Park as a memorial to Hearst editor Arthur Brisbane, the last private owner of the site, who purchased the land in 1907 and built a palatial residence on that property that would later serve as the Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment Center. The Brisbane family donated the property to the State of New Jersey to establish Allaire State Park and the Historic Village at Allaire. Allaire Village Inc., a non-profit organization, is licensed by the State of New Jersey to operate the site now known as "The Historic Village at Allaire." The Allgor-Barkalow Homestead at 1701 New Bedford Road was constructed in 1840, 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. The Blansingburg schoolhouse at Sea Girt Avenue opened in 1855; The building was relocated in 1999 to the Allgor-Barkalow Homestead Museum property for refurbishing.〔Lippincott, Donna. ("Old Wall Historical Society Allgor-Barkalow Museum and Blansingrburg Schoolhose Museum" ), Wall Patch, August 12, 2013. Accessed October 20, 2015. "This is a real gem in Wall Township. The Allgor-Barkalow House dates back to about 1800. It was a General Store. Come take a tour of the home. The Blansingburg Schoolhouse Museum is dated about 1850 and was moved from Sea Girt."〕 Wall Township was formed in 1851, from portions of Howell Township.〔 The newly formed Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, with its home office in England, purchases a farm around 1900 that became the site of the company's receiver equipment for commercial transatlantic radio operation. The Marconi signal site was abandoned in 1924, but it was later occupied by the Ku Klux Klan until they were ejected in March 1928. The United States Army purchased the Marconi site in November 1941 and named it Camp Evans.〔Carney, Leo H. ("WALL: A TOWNSHIP OF MANY FACES" ), ''The New York Times'', January 3, 1988. Accessed October 28, 2013. "Marconi is believed to have lived in Shark River Hills from 1913 to 1924, after which time he joined the Radio Corporation of America.After he left, Mrs. Salmon said, his home was occupied by the regional Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan, she said, infiltrated and manipulated Shore communities."〕〔 The Allenwood Hospital, located at Squankum and Allenwood Roads, opened in January 1921 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 Township, a county-run nursing home, and was renamed the Geraldine L. Thompson Care Center.〔(Department of the Month Monmouth County Care Centers ), Monmouth County, New Jersey. Accessed October 28, 2013. "There are two state-licensed care centers in Monmouth County, the Geraldine L. Thompson Care Center in Wall, and the John L. Montgomery Care Center in Freehold Township.... In the following decades, the facility was known as the Allenwood Hospital and it became a model institution for the care and treatment of TB patients.... Shortly after Thompson’s death the facility was renamed the Geraldine L. Thompson Care Center where it continues to serve residents."〕 In 1940, Edward I. Brown used an old World War I tank converted into a bulldozer to clear land for an airport that he turned into what is now Monmouth Executive Airport after completing his service in the United States Navy as a pilot during World War II; The airport was sold by the Brown family in 2007 to a private equity firm, despite lengthy attempts by Monmouth county to acquire the facility.〔Zomack, Dan. ("Airport sold to private equity firm" ), ''The Coast Star'', August 16, 2007. Accessed October 28, 2013. "After years of negotiations with Monmouth County government officials, Monmouth Executive Airport was finally sold by the Brown family — but not to the county. The airport has been sold to a private equity group based in North Jersey. Monmouth County Spokesman William Heine confirmed this week that Monmouth Executive Airport in Wall Township has been sold to Onyx Equities of Woodbridge."〕 The Roadside Diner, formerly the Circle Diner and Rusty's, was delivered to its Route 34 site by the Silk City Diner Co. in the 1940s. The diner was used for filming of a scene for the 1983 movie ''Baby It's You'' and appears on the cover of the 1994 Bon Jovi album ''Cross Road: 14 Classic Grooves'', as well as having been featured in the 2008 music video for "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" by Bruce Springsteen.〔Genovese, Peter. ("Coolest-looking diner in New Jersey" ), ''The Star-Ledger'', August 1, 2013. Accessed October 28, 2013. "There isn’t a diner quite like the Roadside Diner anywhere in Jersey.... Filmmaker John Sayles knew a great movie set when he saw one: He used the diner in his 1983 movie ''Baby It’s You,'' with Rosanna Arquette."〕〔Dunphy, Dw. ("New Jersey, Diners, And YouA Day Tripper look into two memorable spots to grab a quick bite." ), ChathamPatch, March 30, 2012. Accessed October 28, 2013. "The (Diner ) in Wall has been an area institution since the 1940s, at the intersection of Rt. 33 and 34 on the Collingwood Circle and was used as a location for the cover of the Bon Jovi album Crossroad. It’s also the location for the video to Bruce Springsteen’s song, 'Girls In Their Summer Clothes.' Can't get more Jersey than that."〕 Wall High School opened in September 1959, while Wall Intermediate School opened in 1967. Interstate 195 was extended into Wall Township in 1981, giving direct high-speed access to Trenton. A suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in December 1999 against the township over a holiday display that included a nativity scene and a Hannukah menorah, contending that the religious symbols violate the constitutional separation of church and state was dismissed by a judge who ruled that the organization had filed its suit too close to the start of the holiday season.〔Staff. ("A.C.L.U. Suit for Removal of Creche and Menorah Is Denied" ), ''The New York Times'', December 24, 1999. Accessed October 28, 2013. "Judge Alfred M. Wolin of United States District Court denied a motion to order the display in Wall Township, in Monmouth County, taken down before Christmas. He said at yesterday's hearing that the A.C.L.U. had known of the display since Dec. 2 but had entered the motion only on Dec. 20."〕 The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a ruling in April 2001 vacating the decision of the district court in the case that the township's holiday display as modified in 2000 to included other seasonal decorations did not violate the Establishment Clause or the New Jersey Constitution and ruling that the ACLU lacked standing to file the case.〔(''ACLU-NJ v. TOWNSHIP OF WALL'' ), Leagle.com, April 3, 2001. Accessed October 28, 2013.〕 Even though many of the surrounding towns sprung out of Wall Township, the only ZIP code that exclusively serves areas of Wall is Allenwood, but even it relies solely on a Post-office box system for regular mail services.〔(ZIP Codes ), State of New Jersey. Accessed June 3, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wall Township, New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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