Enjoyable Truth Friday Week 8! • Wall Township, NJ

As we proceed celebrating 175 years of Wall Township, this week we journey again to the nineteenth century — a time when our neighborhood was made up of small, close-knit villages related by stagecoach routes and shared goal.

Before main highways and fashionable conveniences, these early settlements fashioned the inspiration of the Wall we all know as we speak. Let’s take a more in-depth take a look at the villages, trades, and landmarks that helped form on a regular basis life in nineteenth-century Wall Township.

Nineteenth century Wall settlements have been “villages” clustered alongside stagecoach routes. Earlymaps present the names equivalent to Allenwood, Chapel, New Bedford, Hurleytown, Blansingburg andBailey’s Corner. Each village maintained a blacksmith, carriage, wheelwright, and feed and grainshops. The neighborhood centered on a common retailer whose shopkeeper additionally typically served aspostmaster. The crimson brick constructing on New Bedford Road is without doubt one of the earliest brick buildings inMonmouth County. This Allgor/Kittell blacksmith/wheelwright store is depicted on Wall’s official seal within the decrease proper quadrant.

Source: in-depth historical past from wallnj.gov, initially written by Alyce Salmon

Photo: Images of America Wall Township by Richard Napoliton