Scanned slides from the 1950s through the 1980s
A visit to the historic Village at Allaire
Wall Township, Monmouth County, NJ (1968)
On what looks like a chilly day in November,
my father and a fellow Rotarian (Marty Friedland)
toured the deserted historic site in northeast New Jersey
"The Historic Village at Allaire was once an iron-producing, factory-town known
as the Howell Iron Works, Co. The Village was a self-sufficient community containing
a carpentry and pattern-making shop, a blacksmith shop, a bakery, a boarding house, a blast furnace,
mills to finish iron products, a school, a church, a general store with a post office, and workers’ home.
Iron produced at the village was shipped to New York City by wagon and steamship.
It was used to produce steam engine parts in a factory also owned by our proprietor, James P. Allaire.
The Howell Iron Works was a typical community at the time and speaks to the experiences
of the economic and social changes of those who experienced early Industrial America."
[From the Village at Allaire website]
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