Camp Evans Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease)
Historic district in New Jersey, United States in New Bedford, New Jersey. Added to the National Register in 2012, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
Camp Evans Historic District is an area of the Camp Evans Formerly Used Defense Site in Wall Township, New Jersey. The site of the military installation is noted for a 1941 transatlantic radio receiver and various World War II/Cold War laboratories of the United States Army. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2012, in recognition of the site's long role in the development of modern civilian and military electronic communications.
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The record
| Property type | Historic district |
| Address | 2201 Marconi Rd. (Wall Township), New Bedford vicinity, NJ |
| County | Monmouth County |
| Listed | Aug 21, 2012 |
| Reference number | 12000076 |
| Type of place | historic district |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark, listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places |
| Contributing resources | 5 buildings, 1 structures, 1 sites |
Visiting
| Address | 2201 Marconi Rd. (Wall Township), New Bedford, NJ |
| Coordinates | 40.18712, -74.06183 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Gateway National Recreation Area · 27 mi · on Park Atlas |
| Federal campgrounds nearby | Camp Gateway - Sandy Hook 19 mi · Camp Gateway - Staten Island 29 mi · Camp Gateway- Brooklyn Ny 30 mi |
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Nearby in Monmouth County
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Sources
Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 12000076. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.