Populated place in Middlesex County, New Jersey, US
Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States
Morgan is a
neighborhood in
Sayreville in
Middlesex County , in the
U.S. state of
New Jersey ,
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5] named for Charles Morgan III who purchased the land on May 7, 1710.
[6]
[7]
The
Morgan Draw , constructed over the
Cheesequake Creek in 1912, serves the
North Jersey Coast Line .
[8]
A month before the end of
World War I in 1918, the neighborhood was heavily damaged by the
T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion .
[9]
[10]
Morgan Heights is a neighborhood on the bluff in the district.
See also
References
^
a
b
"Morgan" .
Geographic Names Information System .
United States Geological Survey ,
United States Department of the Interior .
^ Gannett, Henry (January 28, 1895).
"A Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey" . U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
^
Locality Search , State of New Jersey. Accessed February 11, 2015.
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"NJDOT Graphic Information System Maps Middlesex" (PDF) . New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
^
"Morgan Heights Sayreville, NJ 08879, Neighborhood Profile - NeighborhoodScout" .
^
"Timeline" .
^ James, Verne.
"Morgan, New Jersey" . Retrieved September 24, 2018 .
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"REHABILITATION PLANNED FOR 94-YEAR-OLD DRAWBRIDGE ON NORTH JERSEY COAST LINE" (Press release). New Jersey Transit. April 12, 2006. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
^ Yusko, Frank (1994).
The Morgan Explosion of 1918 . Milltown, NJ: Visionary Video Studios.
^ Gabrielan, Randall (2012). Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster . Charleston, SC: The History Press.
ISBN
978-1-60949-517-6 .