WALL TOWNSHIP 
Wall Township is a Township in
Monmouth County , New Jersey. It was officially formed from a portion of Howell in 1851. Together with the boroughs of Spring Lake Spring Lake Heights and Sea Girt, Wall surrounds the tidal pond known as Wreck Pond located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The pond itself is the center of the Wreck Pond Watershed, which occupies approsimately 12 square miles in eastern Monmouth County.
History
The township of Wall is named for Garret D. Wall, a lawyer who commanded a Trenton volunteer company during the War of 1812 and was stationed at Sandy Hook . Wall served five years as clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court and as quartermaster general of the state for more than 20 years.
In 1822 , James P. Allaire purchased what becomes known as the "Howell Works" in Wall. By 1836 it is renowned as the largest producing bog iron manufacturing site in the State of New Jersey . Allaire was named posthumously for its most successful owner and operator, James P. Allaire. Today Allaire Village Inc., a non-profit organization, is licensed by the State of New Jersey to operate the site now known as "The Historic Village at Allaire." 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 the last private owner of the site, famed Hearst editor, Arthur Brisbane. Brisbane built a large palatial residence on his Allaire property that would later serve as the Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment Center .
Around 1900 the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of
America , with its home office in
England , purchased a 93 acre farm from a Mr. Woolley. The farm becomes the site of the company's receiver equipment for commercial transatlantic radio operation. The signal site was abandoned 24 years later, and in 1927 was actually inhabited by the Ku Klux Klan. They were ejected in 1928. Years later, in 1941, the United States Army purchased the Marconi site and renamed it Camp Evans after Col. Paul Wesley Evans, a World War 1 signal officer.
In September of 1939 Wall First Aid was organized. Today it is known as Wall Township First Aid & Rescue Squad.
In 1940, Edward I Brown began clearing a vast scrub-pine tract off Route 34 for an airport. He used an old World War I tank that he converted into a bulldozer, Edward. The tract of land was formerly owned by Arthur Brisbane, who lived at Allaire from 1907 until his death in 1936. After serving as a Navy pilot during World War II, Brown resumed work on building his airport -- today's
Monmouth Executive Airport -- in 1945.
Government
Wall is governed under the Township form of government, which is the oldest form of government in
New Jersey , having been first established in 1798, and enhanced by the Township Act of 1989. All committee members are elected at large. Each year, at the annual reorganization meeting, the Township Committee selects one of its members to preside as mayor for the year, and another to serve as deputy mayor. It is the only form of government in which the mayor is not elected directly by the voters of the municipality. There are 11 municipalities in
Monmouth County using the Township form of government
Monmouth County is governed by a five-member Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Education
The Wall Township Public Schools serve students in kindergarten through high school (K-12). Schools in the district are
Allenwood School (K-5) 1993
Blue Ribbon Central School Old Mill School West Belmar School Wall Intermediate School (6-8)
Wall High School for grades 9-12.
Wall Primary School serves the district's preschool disabled children.
External linksWall Township website
Wall Township Public Schools
Wall Township Police Department
Wall Community First Aid Squad
Wall Township First Aid & Rescue Squad