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Jackson  | | Kathy Abline, Anne Alberta and Roxane Southcott-Roberts sing Christmas carols during a Victorian holiday celebration in Jackson. |
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Jackson Township is a community with a rich history
beginning in the 1600s. The names of the earliest 25 pioneer families, who
settled in the area in the first 10 years of Jackson's existence (1665-1675), are still familiar because their descendants still reside in the town.
Agriculture was the main industry in Jackson prior to 1955. When the Garden State Parkway reached Ocean County in the 1950s, opening up the opportunity for many with North Jersey employment to move out of the congested cities, many people relocated their families to the Jackson area and commuted to work in the north. In the '60s land development shifted from agricultural to residential.
Today Jackson continues to be an ever-growing commuter
community, while maintaining a rural feel. Jackson looks back with pride over
its 330 years of European settlement and its 150 years of development as an incorporated municipality, watching the population grow from 1,330 residents in 1844 to an estimated 42,816 in 2000.
Population: 42,816
Area: 100.4 square miles
Municipal Building:
95 W. Veterans Hwy.
928-1200
Mayor:
Michael Kafton (D)
928-1200
Township Committee:
Sean Giblin (D)
deputy mayor
Joseph Grisanti (D)
Michael Broderick (D)
Josh Reilly
(R)
Committee Meetings:
Every second and fourth Monday at
7:30 p.m.
Township Clerk:
Anne Marie Eden 928-1200
2002 Tax Rate per $100:
$3.056
Emergencies: 911
First aid:
928-0278
Police: 928-1145
Fire:
Whitesville,
363-2595
Cassville, 928-3054
Jackson No. 1,
363-7595
Jackson Mills, 928-1128
Senior Citizens Center:
928-2313
Library:
Ocean County Library System, Jackson Branch
2
Jackson Drive
928-4400
Recreation Department:
928-1260
Post Office: 08527
Bennetts Mills
Road
363-8655
Cassville
928-0110
Board of
Education:
833-4603
Superintendent of
Schools:
Thomas Gialanella
833-4601
SCHOOLS
Grades K-4
Switlik
833-4650
Lucy N. Holman
833-4620
Sylvia Rosenauer 833-4630
Crawford-Rodriguez
833-4690
Howard C. Johnson
833-4640
Grades 5-8
Christa McAuliffe 833-4701
Carl W.
Goetz
833-4610
Grades 9-12
Jackson Memorial High School
833-4621
Recycling:
Call Public Works at
928-1311
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