The village and surrounding acres were later preserved and gifted to the State of New Jersey to form Allaire State Park as a memorial to Hearst editor Arthur Brisbane, the last private owner of the site, who purchased the land in 1907 and built a palatial residence on that property that would later serve as the Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment Center.
The Blansingburg schoolhouse at Sea Girt Avenue opened in 1855; The building was relocated in 1999 to the Allgor-Barkalow Homestead Museum property for refurbishing.
[23] The newly formed Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, with its home office in England, purchases a 93-acre (38 ha) farm around 1900 that became the site of the company's receiver equipment for commercial transatlantic radio operation.
The Marconi signal site was abandoned in 1924, but it was later occupied by the Ku Klux Klan until they were ejected in March 1928.
The United States Army purchased the Marconi site in November 1941 and named it Camp Evans.
In 1957, a 16-room building is dedicated to Geraldine L. Thompson, who served as president of the hospital's board of managers.
Brown used an old World War I tank converted into a bulldozer to clear land for an airport that he turned into what is now Monmouth Executive Airport after completing his service in the United States Navy as a pilot during World War II; The airport was sold by the Brown family in 2007 to a private equity firm, despite lengthy attempts by Monmouth County to acquire the facility.
[32] Wall Stadium, which opened in 1950, is located just south of Monmouth Executive Airport and north of Interstate 195 on Route 34 and was the first track that NASCAR champion Richard Petty raced on in the United States.
The diner was used for filming of a scene for the 1983 movie Baby It's You and appears on the cover of the 1994 Bon Jovi album Cross Road: 14 Classic Grooves, as well as having been featured in the 2008 music video for "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" by Bruce Springsteen.
[citation needed] Interstate 195 was extended into Wall Township in 1981, giving direct high-speed access to Trenton.
[36] A suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in December 1999 against the township over a holiday display that included a nativity scene and a Hannukah menorah, contending that the religious symbols violate the constitutional separation of church and state, was dismissed by a judge who ruled that the organization had filed its suit too close to the start of the holiday season.
[37] The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a ruling in April 2001 vacating the decision of the district court in the case that the township's holiday display as modified in 2000 to include other seasonal decorations did not violate the Establishment Clause or the New Jersey Constitution and ruling that the ACLU lacked standing to file the case.
[38] Even though many of the surrounding municipalities sprung out of Wall Township, the only ZIP code that exclusively serves areas of Wall is Allenwood, but even it relies solely on a Post-office box system for regular mail services.
[45] Wreck Pond is a tidal pond located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Wall Township and the boroughs of Spring Lake, Spring Lake Heights, and Sea Girt.
The Wreck Pond watershed covers about 12 square miles (31 km2) in eastern Monmouth County.
The reservoir can hold up to 1 billion US gallons (3.8×109 L; 830,000,000 imp gal) of water, which is pumped in from the Metedeconk River.
[66] Parts of Allaire State Park and the Edgar Felix Bikeway are found in Wall Township.
[74] Dominick DiRocco was appointed later that month to fill the vacant seat expiring in December 2016 and won election to serve the balance of the term of office.
[77] For the 119th United States Congress, New Jersey's 4th congressional district is represented by Chris Smith (R, Manchester Township).
[104] The Wall Township Public Schools serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.
During its height in the mid 19th century, the community supported about 500 people and was a bustling mill town.
[125] The Allaire Village was Dedicated as a State Park in June 1957[126] and officially reopened by Governor Robert B. Meyner on May 24, 1958.
Through them, visitors are able to experience and better understand the forces that shaped New Jersey's industrial power in the early-mid 19th century.
Today this company remains all volunteer and serves the residents of the West Belmar section of town, also known as Wall Fire District No.
Monmouth Park & Ride is located in the township off of the Garden State Parkway at mile marker 100.
[154] NJ Transit offers passenger train service at stations at Belmar,[155] Manasquan[156] and Spring Lake.
[158][159] Monmouth Executive Airport, which is located in the township (despite having a Farmingdale address), supplies short-distance flights for private jets to surrounding areas.
[160] The next nearest major commercial airports are Trenton-Mercer Airport, which serves several domestic destinations via Frontier Airlines and located 35 miles (56 km) west (about 43 minutes drive); and Newark Liberty International Airport, which serves as a major hub for United Airlines and located 40 miles (64 km) north (about 55 minutes drive) from the center of Wall Township.
[161][162] Jersey Shore University Medical Center is a 691-bed non-profit, tertiary research and academic medical center located in neighboring Neptune Township as part of the Hackensack Meridian Health system, serving the northern Jersey Shore region.
The township is a major landing point for multiple transatlantic subsea cables, including Havfrue AEC-2, Seaborn Networks' Seabras-1, and TGN Atlantic's TGN1 and TGN2.