Monmouth County 250th Historical Scavenger Hunt
The Monmouth County Historical Association and the MonmouthNJ 250 Committee invite you to take part in the Revolutionary Scavenger Hunt - a fun, family-friendly adventure across Monmouth County's historic sites as we celebrate America's 250th birthday!
How it works:
Find the Sites- Review the list of participating locations across Monmouth County
Start Exploring- Travel to as many sites as you'd like between now and July 4, 2026
Scan & Solve- Scan the QR code at each location and answer questions about that historic site
Submit Your Answers- Email your completed answers to info@monmouthhistory.org
Please email your answers along with your name and mailing address to info@monmouthhistory.org to be entered into the prize pool.
Each site visited is 1 entry into the prize pool.
Prize Includes:
-MonmouthNJ 250 Swag Pack featuring a challenge coin, collectible pin, commemorative historic sites map, t-shirt, hat, magnet, and stadium cup
-Family 4-Pack of admission tickets to the 2026 Monmouth County Fair
-An exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Fair
The Historical Scavenger Hunt will begin with Weekend in Old Monmouth, Saturday, May 2nd and will end on Saturday, July 4th.
Three winners will be announced on Friday, July 10th and will be notified via email.
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Historical Hodgepodge Display
at the Avon Post Office
321 Main Street, Avon, NJ 07717
M-F 8 AM-4:30 PM and Sat 8 AM to 12 PM, Closed Sunday
All answers will be found in the display case
Avon-by-the-Sea Historical Society
1. What was the name of the pharmacy that sold Fungie Foe?
2. What was the name of the hardware store on Main Street?
3. What is on the Avon Fire Department logo?
4. Who donated the money to build the Avon Public Library?
5. Find the names of the 5 hotels in the display?
Christ Episcopal Church - Shrewsbury
Christ Church Graveyard
380 Sycamore Ave, Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
Answers can be found in graveyard
(Find the gravestones that match the clues)
1) The 19th century Ketchup King is buried here. Who is it?
2) Shrewsbury’s first woman mayor is at rest in our cemetery. Who is she?
3) Did she sell seashells by the seashore (look for carvings on the stone)?
4) You can JUDGE this stone by its picture.
5) All that jazz—which famous musician is here?
Crawford House
750 Tinton Ave, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724
Answers on signage outside on property
1) Lewis Morris brought enslaved people to his iron works at Tinton Falls. Where did they come from?
2) What document tells us how many enslaved people Lewis Morris owned?
3) How do we know that a ‘Negro burial ground’ was located on this property?
4) What did the iron furnace use for fuel?
5) John C. Crawford purchased some new equipment for his butcher business in 1927. What did it do?
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Eatontown Historical Museum
75 Broad Street, Eatontown NJ 07724
Open May 2nd (10am-5pm), May 3rd (12pm-5pm), June 7th (1pm-4pm)
All answers will be found in the museum
1) What famous person’s portrait is displayed in the museum’s parlor?
2) Which granddaughter of Eatontown’s founder, Thomas Eaton, rented her home to be used as General George Washington’s final wartime headquarters during the Revolutionary War?
3) In the museum’s dining room, there is an opening in the left-hand corner of the rear wall. Behind the plaster, the original mud and straw construction can be seen. What was this construction called?
Bicentennial Hall (Historic Fisk Chapel)
25 Cedar Avenue, Fair Haven, NJ 07704
Answers outside on property
1) What was this historic building originally used for before it became Bicentennial Hall?
2) Do you think this building has always been in the exact spot?
3) I spy more than one window- how many do you see?
4) Can you find what year it was built?
Fair Haven Historical Association
Georgia Road Schoolhouse
300 Georgia Rd, Freehold, NJ 07728
Second Sundays of the month from 2pm-4pm
Freehold Township Heritage Society
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The Oakley Farm Museum
189b Wemrock Road, Freehold, NJ 07728
Second Sundays of the month from 2pm-4pm
Questions 1-4 found at The Oakley Farm Museum, Question 5 found at The Georgia Road Schoolhouse
1) What is the item in this picture?
2) How many families have lived at the Oakley Farm?
3) What two animals were kept in the barns?
4) What tavern is featured in the Oakley Farm’s 250 display?
5) How many bells are at the Georgia Road Schoolhouse? Are they all school bells?
Holmdel Community UCC Church &
Old Baptist Church Cemetery
40 Main St., Holmdel, NJ 07733
Answers located outside on property
1) How many Revolutionary War Heros are buried in the Baptist Church Cemetery?
2) What year was the bell cast (made)?
3) Who was Asher Holmes’ wife?
4) What year was the Holmdel Community Church put on the Register of Historical Places?
MacKenzie Museum & Library
427 Lakewood Farmingdale Road
Howell NJ 07731
Open third Saturday of the month from 1pm to 4pm
Answers in museum
Howell Heritage and Historical Society
1) What did Captain Willian Prickitt and the Nesbit brothers, Isaac and William, have in common?
2) Who lived in the 1805 section of the MacKenzie Museum?
3) Whose picture hangs over the fireplace at MacKenzie Museum?
Old Ardena Schoolhouse
Old Tavern & Preventorium Roads
Howell NJ 07731
Open last Sunday of the month from 1pm to 4pm
Answers in schoolhouse
1) How many schools/districts were in Howell Township before the school consolidation in 1939?
2) Where was the Ardena Schoolhouse actually located when it was in use?
Keyport Historical Society
34 Main St, Keyport, NJ 07735
Sundays from 1pm-3pm
All answers can be found in exhibits on the 1st floor
1) Which artist featured in the museum created a well-known sculpture located in Central Park, and what is the work?
2) Find the woman who supported the Patriot cause by providing food supplies to Continental troops in 1780. Who is she?
3) What model Aeromarine biplane was the first to land on an aircraft carrier when under way?
4) What Steamboat built by Benjamin Terry in Keyport was often referred to as the President’s yacht because Abraham Lincoln found respite on it during the Civil War?
5) What was the name of the company that operated a large oyster processing plant on Luppatatong Creek in Keyport from 1899 -1936?
Manalapan Township Historical Committee
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Historic Grist Mill
Taylor Mills School
77 Gordons Corner Road, Manalapan, NJ 07726
Answers outside on property
1) What was originally on this property?
2) Who owned the Mill?
3) Are there any other Mills in Manalapan?
Marlboro Township Historic Commission
Old Brick Reformed Church
490 CR 520, Marlboro, NJ 07746
Answers on property
(Weekend in Old Monmouth exclusive)
1) In what YEAR did Marlboro become independent from Freehold, and become its own town?
2) What is the name of the Revolutionary War PATRIOT buried at Old Brick Church, that was also a PASTOR?
3) What famous Marlboro RESIDENT went on to become the 24th Vice President under William McKinley?
4) During the Revolutionary War, the British retreated down THIS STREET under the
cover of darkness, after their defeat at the Battle of Monmouth, aiming to reach their fleet anchored off Sandy Hook.
5) On what DATE did the Battle of Monmouth take place?
Main Museum
70 Court St., Freehold, NJ, 07728
Wed-Fri from 1pm-4pm and the 1st, 3rd and 5th Saturdays of the month from 1pm-4pm.
Answers located in museum exhibit
Monmouth County Historical Association
1) What was the name of the woman who built the Allen House model?
2) What are the two items in the barrels being preserved?
3) Who painted “Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth”?
Covenhoven House
150 W Main St., Freehold, NJ 07728
Fridays 1pm-4pm
2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month from 1pm-4pm
Answers located in the house
1) What was the name of the British General that showed up at the Covenhoven's doorstep?
2) What does the mural scene over the fireplace in the Blue Bedroom depict?
3) How many children did William and Elizabeth have?
Marlpit Hall
137 Kings Hwy., Middletown, NJ 07748
Fri-Sun 1pm-4pm
Answers located in the house
1) What are the 2 main colors of the fragments found under the floorboards in the enslaved quarters?
2) How many mannequins are in the home and who do they represent?
3) Were the original owners of the home Loyalists or Patriots?
Taylor-Butler House
127 Kings Hwy., Middletown, NJ 07748
Fri-Sun 1pm-4pm
Answers located in the house
1) How many bells are on the wall in the servant's room?
2) What color is the front door?
3) How many fireplaces are on the first floor?
Monmouth County Park System
Historic Portland Place
Hartshorne Woods Park
200 Hartshorne Road, Locust (Middletown Township), NJ 07760
Tours of Historic Portland Place
Wednesday-Sunday, May 2-November 15,
10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Grounds and parking lot open at 7 a.m. daily, year-round.
Answers can be found outside on property
1) Historic Portland Place was once owned by which early colonial family?
a. The Washington Family
b. The Hartshorne Family
c. The Bowne Family
2) What is the name of the body of water that Historic Portland Place overlooks?
a. The Shrewsbury River
b. The Hudson River
c. The Navesink River
3) What species is the Magnolia tree located between the Visitor Center and the
historic house?
a. Southern Magnolia
b. Northern Magnolia
c. Saucer Magnolia
Battery Lewis
Hartshorne Woods Park (Rocky Point Entrance)
1402 Portland Road, Highlands, NJ 07732
Weekends, Memorial Day through Columbus Day
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Answers found inside
1) For whom is Battery Lewis named?
a. An Army General
b. A military artillery gun inventor
c. A local geologist
2) The Battery was constructed to protect U.S. shores during which war era?
a. Revolutionary War
b. WWI
c. WWII
3) What native people once inhabited the land that is today’s Hartshorne Woods Park?
a. Wampanoag
b. Lenape
c. Navajo
Historic Seabrook Wilson
Bayshore Waterfront Park Activity Center
719 Port Monmouth Road, Port Monmouth, NJ 07758
Open House
Monday, Thursday, & Sunday – May 2-October 29
1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Park opens at 7 a.m. daily, year-round.
Answers can be found outside on property
1) What was the name of the British brigantine that ran aground on the shore of the bay?
a. Rebecca and Fancis
b. Britannia
c. Defiance
d. HMS Hinchinbrook
2) In approximately what year was the oldest section of the Seabrook-Wilson House
built?
a. 1776
b. 1855
c. 1720
d. 1650
3) What major transportation developments in the mid-1800s transformed the landscape around the house and led to the growth of Port Monmouth?
a. The construction of the Garden State Parkway
b. Steamboat service and railroads
c. The establishment of the first interstate trucking routes
d. The expansion of the Sandy Hook lighthouse trail
Historic Walnford
62 Walnford Road, Upper Freehold, NJ 08501
Park is open 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. from Memorial Day through Labor Day
Historic buildings are open daily from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Milling demonstrations take place on Saturday and Sunday from April through November
12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m.
Answers found inside
1) What year was the elegant Georgian-style Waln House built?
a. 1773
b. 1776
c. 1820
d. 1690
2) Waln’s Mill is a “grist mill.” What was its primary function?
a. To saw timber into lumber.
b. To process iron ore into tools.
c. To weave wool into fabric.
d. To grind grain and corn into flour.
3) When the mill was rebuilt in 1872, what technology was used to power it instead ofa traditional vertical water wheel?
a. A cast iron turbine
b. An electric generator
c. A wind-driven sail system
d. A steam-powered piston engine
Historic Longstreet Farm
44 Longstreet Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733
Park is open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. daily
Answers found inside
1. Historic Longstreet Farm is a living history site that recreates the atmosphere of a Monmouth County farm during which specific decade?
a. 1770s
b. 1840s
c. 1890s
d. 1930s
2) What primary source of power was used for field work like plowing and harvesting at Longstreet Farm in the 1890s?
a. Steam engines
b. Draft horses
c. Oxen
d. Gasoline tractors
3) Which specific crop was a major ‘cash crop’ for Monmouth County farmers like Longstreet’s in the late 1800s?
a. Tobacco
b. Cotton
c. Sugarcane
d. Potatoes
4) What was the function of the ‘Ice House’ located on the farm property?
a. To manufacture artificial ice using chemicals
b. To store blocks of ice cut from local ponds for year-round refrigeration
c. To serve as a cold-weather shelter for the sheep
d. To house the farm’s heavy machinery during winter.
Holmes-Hendrickson House
Holmdel Park
62 Longstreet Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733
Tours of the Holmes-Hendrickson House
Saturday and Sunday, April 25-October 18
12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Answers found inside
1) What was the name of Revolutionary War Veteran who lived here in the 1700s?
a. Bob Hendrickson
b. Philip Freneau
c. Garrett Hendrickson
d. David Forman
2) Where was this house originally located?
a. Bell Labs in Holmdel
b. Middletown Village
c. Along the Bayshore
d. Englishtown Village
3) What event took place at this house during the Revolution?
a. A Court Martial
b. The Battle of Monmouth
c. An Enslaved Uprising
d. A Loyalist Raid on the Family
Historic Racing Stable
Thompson Park
805 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738
Historic Racing Stable Tours
Friday-Sunday, May 2 – October 18
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Answers found inside
1. What was the name of the famous Kentucky Derby winner who was bred and trained at Brookdale Farm?
a. Seabiscuit
b. Regret
c. Sovereignty
d. Lassie
2. What musical has a song that mentions the world class “The Whitney Stable”?
a. Anything Goes
b. Gypsy
c. Rent
d. Wicked
3. What was the “Sport of Kings”?
a. Fencing
b. Arm wrestling
c. Archery
d. Horseracing
Neptune City Historical Committee
Memorial Park
Gazebo
1-41 Riverview Avenue, Neptune City, NJ 07753
Answers outside on property
1) What once stood on the site that is now Memorial Park, in 1862-1884?
2) Who owned 90 acres of land along the Shark River, in part, which is now Memorial Park?
3) What was the later name of the Hotel?
Red Bank Public Library
84 W Front St., Red Bank, NJ 07701
Mon 10am-5pm, Tues-Thurs 10am-8pm
Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Sun Closed
Answers in library
1) The oldest house in Red Bank was built before the Revolutionary War and is still in use today.
What is the name of that house?
2) At the time of the Revolutionary War, Red Bank was not an independent borough.
What community was Red Bank a part of?
3) During the years immediately prior to 1776, people and communities had to choose their allegiance, to back the Continental Congress (the Patriots) or to remain supportive of the Crown (the Loyalists or Tories).
In the Red Bank Area, were loyalties predominantly for:
a. The Patriots
b. The Loyalists
c. Deeply divided
4) Two brothers, Michael and Joseph Price, were ship captains and owners of the Banks Tavern, near where the Union House later stood. Which side of the Revolutionary War did they serve on and what did they do to support their war effort?
5) What happened to those supporting the Loyalists during the Revolution?
RumsonAmerica 250
Battle of Black Point
140 East River Rd, Rumson, NJ 07760
Answers outside on property
1) When did the Battle of Black Point occur?
2) Where were the British headed when this battle occurred?
3) Who won the battle?
Huddy's Leap
West Park, 3 Rumson Rd., Rumson, NJ 07760
Answers outside on property
1) Where was Captain Joshua Huddy originally captured?
2) Who saved Captain Joshua Huddy from the Tories in 1780?
3) When was Captain Joshua Huddy recaptured & hanged?
Squan Village Historical Society
105 South St., Manasquan, NJ 08736
Monday & Thursday from 1pm-4pm
Answers on property
1) What year did the John Bailey Family first live here?
2) What Squan Beach shipwreck spars are part of the carriage house construction?
3) What year was the Bailey-Reed House purchased by the Squan Village Historical Society?
4) How many seats are in the outhouse?
Friends of Millstone Township Historic Registered Properties
Thomas Baird Homestead
24 Baird Road, Millstone Township, NJ 08535
All answers will be found on three interpretive panels onsite (outside)
1) Who founded the St. James AME Church around 1836?
2) Who drew the sketch "Getting Ready for Market?"
3) Who escorted General George Washington & Lord Sterling to the Monmouth Battlefield on June 28,1778?
4) Name a green energy source on the Baird farmstead that supplied water for their livestock and everyday use.
5) Name two gentlemen from Millstone Township who founded the Monmouth County Agricultural Society in 1853.