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Colts Neck
Contributor(s): Gabrielan, Randall (Author)
ISBN: 073859007X     ISBN-13: 9780738590073
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
OUR PRICE:   $19.79  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 1998
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa)
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials)
Dewey: 974
Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.6" W x 9.23" (0.68 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation - New Jersey
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Colts Neck, the Monmouth County that only received that name in 1962, has witnessed a rapid pace of change in its recent past.


The once-rural community has been adapting to suburbanization in recent decades, but longtime residents yearn to preserve memories of the municipality's heritage, and in particular, recollections of two well-known communities. Colts Neck's North American Phalanx was one of America's best-known 19th century cooperative communities, and as such has garnered the interest of philosophers and social scientists. In a completely different historical vein, Colts Neck also encompasses the unincorporated community of Scobeyville, widely known as the home of Laird's Distillery. Synonymous with New Jersey distilling, Laird's has produced the Applejack beverage for many years, and is even known as America's Oldest Distillery.


Contributor Bio(s): Gabrielan, Randall: - Historian Randall Gabrielan has selected over 200 vintage images to illustrate these and other aspects of Colts Neck s development. From the Earle NWS to the many diverse farms and pastoral villages that comprise this charming Monmouth County community, Mr. Gabrielan s account includes detailed information on the broad historical significance of Colts Neck from a local point of view. The book will surely prove a valuable addition to the popular collection of Images of America titles that Mr. Gabrielan has written over the past four years.