heritage village at elton corner freehold township

This district is situated along County Route 537 and stretches from Stillwell Corner Road to Route 9. West Freehold Village Area West Freehold District To read more, pick up a copy of the 'History of the Burlington Path, Freehold Township, New Jersey' which is available at Municipal Complex or Oakley Farmhouse. Sir Henry Clinton and his British troops also used the route as they marched into Freehold on the way to the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778. In 1684 when it was established, transportation over the route was mostly by stagecoach. The Indians used it to go to the sea and collect their winter store of oysters, clams, shells, etc.

It traversed the state from Burlington to Perth Amboy. The path was the principal route across this section of the county in colonial times and was said to be an important Leni-Lenape Indian Trail before that. You will notice a long dirt path that runs west to east and continues between the 2 schools located on Stillwell Corner Road. Part of this major transportation route is located just south of the parking lot of Moore's Restaurant (originally named Mount's Tavern/Inn). These gravestones were recently returned to the Freehold area from Vermont, and they are now part of the permanent collection of the Monmouth County Historical Museum located on Court Street in Freehold Boro. It was in this vicinity that 2 gravestones were removed when the present housing development was built. One block north stands the remains of an old oak tree said to be the site of the Conover family burial plot. Located on Schanck Road across from the Municipal Plaza. This road may have been named for the Schanck family that in the 1800s donated the land upon which the Battle of Monmouth Monument stands today in front of the Courthouse in Freehold Boro.

Once a toll road, Schanck Road bears the name of a Dutch family common to Monmouth County.

Heritage village at elton corner freehold township