They County Clerk and Surrogate serve five-year terms and the Sheriff serves a three-year term. The assignment judge for Vicinage 8 is the Honorable Travis L. The 6 th and 12 th Congressional Districts cover the county. Skip to content. Facebook page opens in new window Linkedin page opens in new window Twitter page opens in new window Instagram page opens in new window. About Middlesex County. The Municipalities of Middlesex County.
Although it has dwindled during the years, as other municipalities were created by the Legislature, to a mere Its creation, coupled with the subsequent creation of other new municipalities hastened the establishing of a new county six years later in The lower half of Old-Monmouth was cut off to become Ocean County, which will be celebrating its own "Sesquicentennial" in another six years at the year Forestry, with the hewing of trees for boardfeet at the local sawmills and the manufacture of charcoal for the local furnaces converting iron bog ore to pig iron , was the first industry.
And, as the forests were stripped from the land, owners converted their farms to crop growth. At peak production after the Civil War, more than cranberry bogs were in production with the majority of the harvested crop being processed and shipped in crates and barrels fabricated at the sawmills of Jackson, to Philadelphia, New York and even Boston, by the Holman family of Whitesville, the Allans of Cassville, and the Poppes of Legler.
As Jackson moved into the twentieth century, the fabrication of pine trees into charcoal and the commercial growing of cranberries, continued to be the main industries. After World War I and starting about , a new agricultural industry arose as the charcoal and cranberry industries began to wane.
Everyone became a poultry farmer. Chicken coops to house the egg producing poultry sprang up everywhere, as well as brooder houses where the young poults from a February start as baby chicks stayed until they matured to egg producers and were moved from the brooder houses to the laying coops after Labor Day. Plant facilities in coops and brooder houses ranged from one room facilities housing growing chickens in Jackson to the second largest poultry farm in all of New Jersey, the Shubkegel farm on Lakewood-New Egypt Road Rte, at Cross Street, housing 30, chickens in two and three story coops.
By , there was no poultry industry in all of Ocean County; only empty coops littering the countryside. Plans were on the drawing board and rights-of-way were acquired for a Turnpike spur and fast rail line to be constructed from North Brunswick, south through Jackson, to connect with the Parkway at its Toms River toll plaza.
Other plans were being designed to create an east-west interstate I from Trenton, through Jackson, to the shore.
It was inevitable that starting in , land development in Jackson shifted from agriculture to new home development as the North Jersey megalopolis reached out into southern Monmouth and upper Ocean Counties. Just from to , 3, new children were enrolled in the local schools, a trend that has continued at a lesser level through the years, despite the recession. Today, we are a commuter community. Jackson can look back with pride over its years of European settlement and its years of development as an incorporated municipality, watching the population of its Skip to Main Content.
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