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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
Left on this road is HOLMDEL, 0.7 mile (100 alt.), one of the oldest settlements
in Monmouth County. The name is derived from the Holmes family, leading landowners, and descendants of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes, who came from England in
1638 and became pastor of the Baptist Church at Newport, R. I. in 1676. This village, with its one main street lined with venerable elms and maples, was the original
Freehold and bore that name probably 75 years before the present Freehold. The
name was changed afterward to Baptistown. The old BAPTIST CHURCH, built in
1705, partly rebuilt in 1809, and remodeled in 1893, is on the right side of the
short main street. A squat, faded buff building surmounted by a square belfry and
a short spire, it is built close to the ground on a foundation scarcely visible. Each
of its long, wide, shingled sides has three stained glass windows. At the BELL LABORATORIES STATION, Long Street Rd. (not open to public), radio reception is
studied in conjunction with a station at Deal. Here sounds of mysterious origin are
sometimes received; scientists trace their source to a point somewhere near the center of the Milky Way.
On the eastern edge of Holmdel (L), upon a commanding knoll, lie the extensive MACCAMPBELL VINEYARDS (open daylight hours daily) of former Assemblyman Theron MacCampbell. Wine and jelly grapes are shipped in carload lots. A
table displays choice varieties of grapes. Back of the display area is a natural amphitheater among tall oaks, known as The Forum, with a small platform and microphone. Benches seating 2,000 radiate in a huge semicircle. Audiences come from a
wide area to hear public questions discussed on Sunday morning.
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