Freewood_Acres,_New_Jersey

Freewood Acres, New Jersey

Freewood Acres, New Jersey

Populated place in Monmouth County, New Jersey, US

Freewood Acres is an unincorporated community located within Howell Township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[2][3][4][5] The area is made up of mostly single-story homes arranged along a street grid in the northern reaches of the Pine Barrens. U.S. Route 9 runs through the center of the community just north of its interchange with Interstate 195.[6] The Land O'Pines Elementary School and Manasquan Reservoir County Park exist to the east of the community.[7] It became the center of the Kalmyk American community in the latter part of the 20th century.[8][9][10][11]

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    "Freewood Acres". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
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    "Parcel and Subdisvision Map". Howell Township. October 2016. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
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    Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 24, 2015.
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    Shear, Jeffrey (September 16, 1979). "The Kalmuks: A Touch Of Mongolia in Monmouth". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
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    Google (November 8, 2015). "Aerial view of Freewood Acres" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
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    New Jersey in Focus Buildings in Monmouth: Stories and Styles
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    "A Tiny Jersey Ethnic Group, The Kalmyks, Traces Its Roots To Mongolia and Genghis Khan-www.njmonthly.com". New Jersey Monthly. March 14, 2011.
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    "Buddhist Community Has Deep Roots in Howell". Howell, NJ Patch. May 18, 2012.


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