{"id":107,"date":"2013-06-30T03:54:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T03:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2020-03-22T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T00:31:10","slug":"morgan-redeux-the-morgan-nj-org-web-site","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Morgan-NJ.org Web Site!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Painting of the Morgan Section of Sayreville by H & H Wiley Courtesy of the Sayreville Historical Society.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Morgan, New Jersey is not really a city or a town but rather a political subsection of the Borough of Sayreville and named for the family which purchased the property just a little over 300 years ago.  It is located on the western shores of Raritan Bay, bordered to the north by the City of South Amboy and by Cheesequake Creek to the south.  The western border seems to be not quite well defined though it is, I\u2019m told, generally understood to be somewhere around the present day Garden State Parkway.<\/span><\/p>\n

The original \u201cFive Hundred acres of Land & marsh\u201d was purchased by Charles Morgan III on May 7, 1710 and appears to have remained in the family for some 200 years.  Now a long established bedroom community, it was once a sparsely populated wooded area and even before that time, was presumably the home to the Lenni Lenape tribe.  Since then, Morgan gained a railroad, which is still very much in use, and a state highway also very much in use.  For a few decades, there was a trolley line.  For some fifty years, there was a thriving beach community which was the first stop in New Jersey\u2019s fabled \u201cJersey Shore.\u201d There were markers showing the border between New York and New Jersey. For a few hundred years there was a historic inn with the legend of the hanging of a spy. Within an eleven month time period, there was the expedited building of one of the largest munitions plants of its time, or ever, and its deadly sudden and total destruction.  The bluff overlooking the bay was used during the Revolution as a way to monitor enemy ship movements. One member of the Morgan family was killed during the revolution and is buried next to his father and brother all of whom were part of the Middlesex County Militia \u2013 the brother also later being a member of the US Congress House of Representatives. There is one school, two cemeteries, no places of worship I can think of, a brick road, a few marinas \u2013 even after Hurricane Sandy, a channel with two jetties, two road bridges and one railroad bridge over Cheesequake Creek, a gas pipeline leading under the bay, a number of small businesses but mostly houses and the remains of \u201cThe Woods.\u201d  If Facebook and the initial response to this web site are guides, Morgan is also very fondly thought of by the many people who either grew up there or spent a good portion of their lives there.<\/p>\n

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Read the new stuff by clicking on RECENT ADDITIONS, here or above. Morgan, New Jersey is not really a city or a town but rather a political subsection of the Borough of Sayreville and named for the family which purchased the property just a little over 300 years ago.  It is located on the western shores of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}