2011 Archives History Game – Red Bank
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1 | In 1693, Monmouth County was divided into three townships: Freehold, Middletown, and Shrewsbury. | |
2 | Red Bank is named after the color of the clay along its Navesink riverbanks. | |
3 | Rt. 18, begun in 1966, was extended south to connect to the Garden State Parkway at Wayside in 1979. | |
4 | The North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club, one of the first ice boating clubs in the United States, was formed in 1880 in Red Bank. | |
5 | William James “Count” Basie, the eminent jazz musician (1904-1984), grew up on Mechanic Street in Red Bank. | |
6 | The Red Bank Register began as an independent weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1959. | |
7 | During its history from 1878 to 1991, the Red Bank Register had five different owners, three of them beginning in 1982. | |
8 | While the border between Red Bank and Fair Haven is now a series of jagged lines, originally it formed a smooth arc like that between Delaware and Pennsylvania. | |
9 | U.S. President William Henry Harrison’s son, John Cleves Symmes Harrison, owned a farm on the banks of the North Shrewsbury River. | |
10 | Brookdale Community College, which opened in 1969, is the only county college in New Jersey that is not named for its county or region. | |
11 | Red Bank was organized as a town within Shrewsbury Township in 1870. In 1908, it was incorporated as a separate borough by the State of New Jersey. | |
12 | Around 1980, George “Bimbo” Imbimbo was a comedic night shift Yellow Cab dispatcher based in an office next to the Red Bank Railroad Station. | |
13 | The first railroad into Red Bank was the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad in 1860. | |
14 | 51 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, the building with the clock tower, was built as the Shrewsbury Town Hall in 1892. | |
15 | “Texas,” an old name for Red Bank’s west site, was so named because it once possessed the character of the “Wild West.” | |
16 | 16 Rector Street in Red Bank was named for the location of the Episcopal parsonage. | |
17 | Starbat Strongheart was a champion collie at Florence Ilsh’s Bellhaven Kennels in the 1920s. | |
18 | Red Bank is probably unique in that both McDonald’s and Burger King failed there in the 1980s. | |
19 | Coleman, Dehart, Dickopf, and Dorn were all distinguished Red Bank photographers in the early 1900s. | |
20 | On December 15, 1979, Santa Claus arrived in Red Bank by helicopter to meet with local children about holiday wishes. |
Answers may be found either in Randall Gabrielan’s four books on Red Bank or in the 2011 exhibition catalog, Red Bank Register: 40 Photographs, available at http://co.monmouth.nj.us/documents/9/RedBankRegister_19776_1985.pdf