Lakehurst
Lakehurst | ||
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Location in New Jersey
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | 1921 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | New Jersey | |
County : | Ocean County | |
Coordinates : | 40 ° 1 ′ N , 74 ° 19 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 2,654 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 1,105.8 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 2.6 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.4 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land |
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Height : | 21 m | |
Postcodes : | 08733, 08755, 08759 | |
Area code : | +1 732 | |
FIPS : | 34-37770 | |
GNIS ID : | 0885270 | |
Website : | www.lakehurstnj.org | |
Mayor : | Timothy Borsetti |
Lakehurst is a place in the US state of New Jersey , about 100 kilometers southwest of New York City . It has 2,654 inhabitants ( 2010 census ) and is the location of a base of the US Navy , the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst . Because of its history, the place calls itself "Airship Capital of the World".
history
Lakehurst was founded in 1841 and for a long time was only a small town whose most important asset was its location on a railway line. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries In the 19th century, Lakehurst became known as a health resort and holiday resort.
The later airship port area had been the firing range of an ammunition factory since 1915, and from 1918 a test site for poison gas and a training camp for the Army Chemical Warfare Service under the name Camp Kendrick . After the First World War it was put up for sale by the Army. On May 16, 1919, the Minister in charge of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt , decided to purchase 1,700 acres of land in Lakehurst for use as an airship field for the Navy. In 1937 the accident of the Zeppelin LZ 129 "Hindenburg" occurred here .
Even after World War II, Lakehurst remained an airship base for US impact airships , including for air surveillance during the Cold War .
Sons and daughters
- Richard Shindell (* 1960), folk musician and singer-songwriter
- Juice Newton (born 1952), country pop singer
Web links
- Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, Inc. (English) ; part of the text is based on Our Airship History on these pages