National Register of Historic Places

Navesink Military Reservation

Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Listed
October 12, 2015
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
15000011

About this property

Highlands Air Force Station was a military installation in Middletown Township near the borough of Highlands, New Jersey. The station provided ground-controlled interception radar coverage as part of the Lashup Radar Network and the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment network, as well as providing radar coverage for the Highlands Army Air Defense Site. The site's 240 acres (97 ha) is now the Rocky Point section in Hartshorne Woods Park of the Monmouth County Parks System. The Navesink Military Reservation (also called the Highlands Military Reservation) was added as a historic district to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 October 2015.

Location

Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey

Categories

MILITARYENGINEERINGARCHITECTURE
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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Navesink Military Reservation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 12, 2015.

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Navesink Military Reservation is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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