Oh boy do I have news for you 😉 😂

So sad! I just to work there! It was a great place❤

USS BUTTE AE-27 1984-87

Was there last weekend. So happy to it saved. I worked there in 80's and 90's. wonderful place then and now.

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YEA THE NOT TWIN LIGHT HOUSES ARENT IMPORTANT AT ALL RIGHT...

RIP

Grew up in this town. Lived here from 92 to 2003. And not a day goes by that I don’t miss it.

You should see what they’ve done with the place now, particularly Battery Lewis. Night and day improvement!

I'll always love Holmdel Park. :D

All houses now and the main building struggling to maintain. They worked on nike missiles, there were 5 nike missiles at a launch site on the next hill to the north of there where now is a tennis court and parking lot in holmdel park. You can find sharks teeth and other fossiles in the creek that winds along there. Ramsmussen creek i think they call it, but to me was just "the creek".

Adairs Furniture lol

I left highlands as a teenager in 2003 and still miss it to this day

Rip bud Spencer

Thompson Park and Marlu Lake are crown jewels of the Monmouth County Park System. I know, I'm a Monmouth County Park System Volunteer, and Friend of the Parks also.

Real decline. Sad.

I ran my boat out near here in Sandy Hook and Raritan Bay, either from Keyport and launched out of Atlantic Highlands a couple times.

I've run Raritan Bay several time, and Sandy Hook Bays with my boat, also my brother in laws boat, with family/ friends on pleasure runs and to fish.

John, my brother Mike and his wife bought there first home in Belford, near Campbell Ave. near Campbell Junction. My niece Karen, my sister Linda 's daughter, and Karin' husband Tim have a home in Port Monmouth for 20 years, minus the almost 2 years they vacated due to Sandy and having their house raised.

Unfortunately they closed down this year, miss them, but happy retirement to them

We drank a few beers in that bunker. We rode in on dirt bikes. 1970

Live in FL now but lived i Keansburg for about 8 years. I miss it

They just recently announced retirement and are closing. The end of an era.

Great video, John. We were just there yesterday and it was 60° and beautiful. The deer were walking all over the place and where a welcome sight.

Middletown is a great town, I would love to move there. Or Red Bank.

You should do a short video about the Chapel Hill Lighthouse. I believe it's a private residence now in Middletown, but it used to work in tandem with the Leonardo beacon

Throwback Tuesday I was stationed here. 93

thank you this is some of my family history

I am directly descended from John Throckmorton (d.1684 in Middletown), Daniel Hendrickson (my mother's maiden name) and Richard Hartshorne.

Did you come across anything about Native Americans when researching this?? Not Lenape, the “clans” that lived on this mountain originally.

Lol i hear them yell at people to move all the time, I live right on the beach in Leonardo

I'd imagine I'm far from the only one who had any idea it existed before Google Earth. Probably it took some people by surprise if they saw it from an airplane. I don't have a problem with piers but one that's 2+ miles long seems kinda unnerving

High 💨lands

VERY GOOD AND DETAILED VIDEO!!! Thank you 🙏 sooooo much!!!!!!!

This was a terrific video. I tired to find the springs yesterday but I missed it somehow. Thank you for this! <3

Came in through the woods on many a moonlit night. I have partied in those pill boxes as a teenager. Partied at the mortar batteries, we used to call them the pits. Cops raided us one night there.

A great video and as I watch it today some of the eateries that are gone. Thank you

Great video! I could see my childhood home. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

I'm a descendant of Penelope. I understand Throckmoton to be her bloodline?

Very interesting! Thanks for this!

I used to go camping up there back in the early 80s w/my friends...we all used to live down and around Hartshorne Road. During the Winter we'd go all the way down to go ice skating on Carton's Pond.

Grew up in Union Beach from Sept 67 to Christmas Eve 1980 I lived on Ash St . I was born in Newark on St Patrick's Day 67 lived in Irvington my first 6 months of life .When I lived in Union Beach Chingarora creek was at the end of my street I did a lot of crabbing in that creek . Many large blue claws in there . Also when I was growing up in Ash St . I used to watch the garbage trucks dump there waste in the back field of the old Aero Marine property across the Chingarora creek they did this for many years they also used to dump bulk garbage in a field at the end of State street . I used to go there and find broken electric toys and take them apart and use there components to make things with . A lot of memories there . As I write this I have a week or two to live and found this video looking up past places for memories . ✌️

My husband descends from the Stout-Wyckoff families. I also know a Forman/Lander descendant as well. Hope these cemeteries are recorded on Findagrave.

"Crowds on Demand" I love the crisis actor that overly rubs his eyes on queue @9:10

I miss Holmdel Park

I'm glad they are finally talking about the garbage dumping that was being done at the old Aero marine property from the 50s to 1979 and finally having it cleaned up I always knew it would come back out to the light one day when I was younger growing up on Ash Street and seeing all the garbage trucks unloading almost every day across Chingarora creek and now I heard last week they are finally going after the property owners to clean it up after closing 40+ years ago

need a better narrator

I enjoyed your video

When you say the population of the country in 1614 was 300 people, what do you mean? There was no country. Surely there was a population who lived in what would become to be called North America, surpassed that number.

So weird growing up in Holmdel & driving around all these areas I never questioned why there was Normandy Rd or why we couldn't drive on it. I never ever saw a train on those RR tracks either. We had an old Nike base in town & Bell Labs too.