Freneau, New Jersey

Lita is a restaurant in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey. It was a semifinalist in the Best New Restaurant category of the James Beard Foundation Awards in 2024.

Matawan is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A historic community located near the Raritan Bay in the much larger Raritan Valley region, the borough is a commuter town of New York City within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 9,565, an increase of 755 (+8.6%) from the 2010 census count of 8,810, which in turn reflected a decline of 100 (−1.1%) from the 8,910 counted in the 2000 census.Matawan was part of the Bayshore Regional Strategic Plan, an effort by nine municipalities in northern Monmouth County to reinvigorate the area's economy by emphasizing the traditional downtowns, dense residential neighborhoods, maritime history, and the natural beauty of the Raritan Bayshore coastline. The plan has since been integrated into the 2016 Monmouth County Master Plan. Matawan is a part of the New Jersey Transit Village Initiative, a type of residential-focused transit-oriented development focused around the Aberdeen-Matawan train station.

The Old Bridge Township Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Old Bridge Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2016-17 school year, the district's 15 schools had an enrollment of 8,899 students and 708.00 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6:1.The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District is a regional public school district in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from the communities of Aberdeen Township and Matawan Borough.As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising seven schools, had an enrollment of 3,827 students and 324.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1.The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District Central Offices are located at 1 Crest Way, in Aberdeen.

Lake Lefferts (Latitude: 40.414552, Longitude: -74.234589) is an engineered lake in Matawan, New Jersey. The lake is the result of the construction in 1928 of Lake Lefferts Dam, which captured and stored the flow of Matawan Creek. The lake is home to sunnies (sunfish), bluegill, crappies, bass, catfish, and pickerel. Near Ravine Drive is a recreational outdoor area, which includes a public fishing dock, boat launch, and canoe rental.

Matawan Regional High School is a four-year regional public high school located in Aberdeen Township, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District. Serving students from Aberdeen Township and Matawan, it is one of Monmouth County's largest schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1951. The school mascot is a husky.As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,139 students and 95.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. There were 187 students (16.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 45 (4.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Maj. John Burrowes Mansion is located in Matawan, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The mansion was built in 1723 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1972.

Strathmore is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Aberdeen Township, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. At the 2010 census, the CDP's population was 7,258.

Imperial Oil is a current Superfund site located off Orchard Place near Route 79 in Morganville, Marlboro Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. This site is one of 114 Superfund sites in New Jersey. It is in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 Superfund area of control and organization. The 15-acre (61,000 m2) Imperial Oil Co./Champion Chemicals site consisted of six production, storage, and maintenance buildings and 56 above-ground storage tanks.

Gravelly Brook is a tributary of Matawan Creek in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the United States. Gravelly Brook's source is in the Mount Pleasant Hills, flowing north into Matawan Creek.

Aberdeen–Matawan is a station on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, located in Aberdeen and Matawan, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. This station, convenient to Route 35 and the PNC Bank Arts Center, is popular with both commuters and concertgoers, and is the busiest station on the line between Bay Head and Rahway. The station is located at grade on Atlantic Avenue, on the border of Aberdeen and Matawan, and has two high side platforms, as well as two abandoned low side platforms, and two tracks. A ticket office is located on the New York-bound platform. All trains on the North Jersey Coast Line serve this station. The former Freehold Branch can still be traced in a southeastern parking lot.

The Florence and Keyport Plank Road was a partially built plank road in New Jersey. The Florence & Keyport Company was chartered in Monmouth County, New Jersey on March 1, 1850. The Florence & Keyport Joint Companies were chartered in Monmouth County on August 17, 1853; one object of the company was “the construction of and maintenance of Roads leading to and from said depots, on which said business may be done, and also to purchase and hold the stock of such Road Companies or other corporations as will extend the business of this Company and promote the object of its organization.” Intended as a toll road to run from Florence, Burlington County, on the Delaware River to a point (now Union Beach) near Keyport on Raritan Bay. The only part planked was beginning at the foot of Dock Street, Union Beach, thence up Dock to State Street (now Florence Avenue, part of County Route 39 ), thence southwest to end at Main Street, Keyport (now County Route 4. Here was as far as they got with the planked surface. It is known that the planking was proposed to continue along Clark Street to approximately Beers Street, from which it was to set off in a southwesterly direction, crossing into Hazlet and Aberdeen Townships and intersecting Lloyd Road and Church Street. From there it was to follow Lloyd Road to the Monmouth County Plank Road (the present New Jersey Route 79). The segment west of Beers Street was laid out as a public road on May 13, 1859. This road return was the subject of two caveats filed against it: One from William W. Ackerson, through whose land it was to run, and one from the Township Committee as a body. As a result, on February 23, 1860, a committee of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders voted to quash this road return as “unnecessary and injurious." Also laid out on May 13, 1859 was that portion between the present Reid's Hill Road and New Jersey Route 79; this segment was opened to the public and became known as Lloyd Road.