Populated place in Monmouth County, New Jersey, US
Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States
Freewood Acres is an
unincorporated community located within
Howell Township in
Monmouth County , in the
U.S. state of
New Jersey .
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[5] The area is made up of mostly single-story homes arranged along a
street grid in the northern reaches of the
Pine Barrens .
U.S. Route 9 runs through the center of the community just north of its interchange with
Interstate 195 .
[6] The Land O'Pines Elementary School and
Manasquan Reservoir County Park exist to the east of the community.
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It became the center of the
Kalmyk American community in the latter part of the 20th century.
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References
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"Freewood Acres" .
Geographic Names Information System .
United States Geological Survey ,
United States Department of the Interior .
^ Lurie, Maxine N.; Lurie, Maxine; M.D, Michael Siegel; Mappen, Marc (April 13, 2004).
Encyclopedia of New Jersey . Rutgers University Press.
ISBN
9780813533254 – via Google Books.
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"Parcel and Subdisvision Map" . Howell Township. October 2016. Retrieved March 31, 2020 .
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"NJDOT Graphic Information System Maps Middlesex" (PDF) . New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
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Locality Search , State of New Jersey. Accessed February 24, 2015.
^ Shear, Jeffrey (September 16, 1979).
"The Kalmuks: A Touch Of Mongolia in Monmouth" . The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
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Google (November 8, 2015).
"Aerial view of Freewood Acres" (Map).
Google Maps . Google. Retrieved November 8, 2015 .
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New Jersey in Focus Buildings in Monmouth: Stories and Styles
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"A Tiny Jersey Ethnic Group, The Kalmyks, Traces Its Roots To Mongolia and Genghis Khan-www.njmonthly.com" . New Jersey Monthly . March 14, 2011.
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"Expedition Magazine - Penn Museum" . www.penn.museum .
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"Buddhist Community Has Deep Roots in Howell" . Howell, NJ Patch . May 18, 2012.