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Area. 250 acres (100 ha) Replaced by. Mountain Creek Waterpark. Action Park was an amusement and water park located in Vernon Township, New Jersey, United States, on the grounds of the Vernon Valley/Great Gorge ski resort. The park consisted primarily of water-based attractions and originally opened to the public in 1978, under the ownership of ...
The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 were a series of shark attacks along the coast of New Jersey, in the United States, between July 1 and 12, 1916, in which four people were killed and one critically injured. The incidents occurred during a deadly summer heat wave and polio epidemic in the United States that drove thousands of people to the ...
New Jersey Turnpike New Jersey Turnpike and spurs (in green) Route information Maintained by NJTA Length 117.2 mi (188.6 km) (Mainline) 11.03 mi (17.75 km)—Western Spur 6.55 mi (10.54 km)—Pennsylvania Extension 8.17 mi (13.15 km)—Newark Bay Extension 5.20 mi (8.37 km)—I-95 Extension 148.18 mi (238.47 km)—Total length of Turnpike including extensions Existed 1951–present History ...
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2 )—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
United States. State (s) New Jersey. Date apprehended. January 22, 1983. Richard Fran Biegenwald (August 24, 1940 – March 10, 2008) was an American serial killer and arsonist who murdered six people, four women and two men, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, between 1958 and 1983. He is suspected in at least two other murders.
New Jersey executed a total of 361 people from its inception to the abolition of the death penalty on December 17, 2007. [1] The first person executed was a slave known to history only as Tom for a rape in 1690. The last execution was of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century. [2]
Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey. / 40.859636; -74.423348. Parsippany–Troy Hills, commonly known as Parsippany ( / pɑːrˈsɪpəni / par-SIP-ə-nee [19] ), is a township in Morris County, in the northern portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 56,162, [9] [10] an increase ...
West Park is a census-designated place (CDP) [5] in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is in the northwest part of the county, within Hopewell Township, and it is bordered to the east by the city of Bridgeton, the county seat. New Jersey Route 49 passes through the CDP, northwest 14 miles (23 km) to Salem .