CJCC: Echo Traditional Cache

Welcome to Monmouth Battlefield State Park in Freehold/Manalapan, NJ. This cache will fulfill your E requirement for the Central Jersey Checkpoint Challenge.

See centraljerseygeocaching.net for more information.

About Monmouth Battlefield:

The largest artillery battle of the Revolutionary war took place here on June 28, 1778. The grounds are said to be the best preserved Revolutionary war site and look today much like they did in 1778. Thousands of British and American soldiers fought in the 100° temperatures over 225 years ago.  While technicle, the Battle of Monmouth was not a victory for the Americans, it was a turning point in the war and set the stage for our freedom and independence.

ech·o \`ek'oh\  n
a: the repetition of a sound caused by reflection of sound waves b: the sound due to such
reflection 

echo is used to represent the letter E, the 5th letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet.

echo satellites were NASA's first passive communications satellite experiment. Each spacecraft was designed as a metallized balloon satellite acting as a passive reflector of microwave signals. Communication signals were bounced off of it from one point on Earth to another

Central Jersey Echo:
While there might be some debate that New Jersey's 4th largest municipalicy Elizabeth in Union Founded in 1664, being part of Central Jersey, there is little doubt that Edison Township in Middlesex, the 5th largest municipality which was founded in 1666, is one of it's largest communities.

Some other towns include East Brunswick, Ewing, Eatontown and Englishtown.  Englishtown being just to the west of here, and from where Washington and his troop came from on the morning of Monmouth Battle, which actually started closer to East Freehold.

Some of the notable unincorporated places in Central Jersey are: East Keansburg, home of Ideal Beach, East Long Branch, home of
Seven Presidents Park, named after U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, and Woodrow Wilson, all of whom spent time in the area's resorts. President Grant declared it the nation's "Summer Capital" in 1869.
There is also East Spotswood which is a USGS placename but is more formally known as the settlement of Old Bridge, is an unincorporated community located within East Brunswick, along the Camden and Amboy RR line.  Along the New Jersey Coast line is Elberon, in Ocean Township, Monmouth county. Also in Monmouth County are the unincorporated communities of Ely named for the Ely family that owned property in the area and operated the Charleston Springs hotel Just up down the road from Elton.

In Mercer County, East Windsor Township, you'll find the communities of Edinburg and Etra. Eldridge Park is an unincorporated community located within Lawrence Township, which is named for Stephen Eldridge, a farm owner along the Trenton & Princeton Traction Company trolleyline.
Extonville is an unincorporated community located within Hamilton Township in Mercer County

About the challenge:

Official CJCC Information
Central Jersey Geocachers are sponsoring the Central Jersey Checkpoint Challenge series.  This challenge series is intended to take geocachers on a tour of Central New Jersey (loosely defined as north of 195 and south of 78) while finding caches placed by Central Jersey geocachers.  On the tour we hope you will find Central Jersey an interesting and beautiful part of our great state.

This challenge series includes 26 checkpoint caches (naming based on the NATO phonetic alphabet) and the final - Central Jersey Checkpoint Challenge (CG1NJAZ).  The 26 checkpoints do not have to be completed in any particular order.  See the CJCheckpoint bookmark for the complete list of caches. 

Hidden within the 26 checkpoint caches (map)are numbers to be used to calculate the coordinates of the final Central Jersey Checkpoint Challenge cache please be sure to note them while you are there. 

Happy caching and enjoy the Central Jersey Checkpoint Challenge!!!

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This cache is certified Central Jersey!