![]() The exhibition’s genealogical section, tracing the life of Joost Springsteen, the Boss’s earliest New Amsterdam ancestor, offers ways to explore beyond the town’s famous son. Parked in the museum’s garden is an antique truck the musician and his manager used to travel from gig to gig – and to Woodstock. Clothes, including boots and a leather bomber from the 1980s, sit alongside a Bruce Springsteen board game created and marketed in Europe by a French fan. There are unreturned keys from hotels Springsteen stayed at early in his career, and a letter to his landlady where he admits to practising his autograph. ![]() Some are the MCHA’s own, others come from the Springsteen Archives of Monmouth University in Long Branch (his town of birth), with more from private collectors and the Boss himself. More than 150 objects are on display at the exhibition, which runs until the end of September 2020. The Battle of Monmouth was fought in June 1778 in what has been preserved as Monmouth Battlefield State Park, which is in Freehold Township and Manalapan Township.Scrapbook made by Bruce Springsteen’s mother, Adele. Freehold town was formed within the township on March 25, 1869, and formally separated when it was reconstituted as a borough on April 15, 1919, including additional portions of the township. Additional portions formed Millstone Township (February 28, 1844), Jackson Township (March 6, 1844), Atlantic Township (Februnow Colts Neck Township), Marlboro Township (February 17, 1848) and Manalapan Township (March 9, 1848). 1731), so some wills and official records following the split referred to "Lower Freehold Township" although the official name has always been Freehold Township. Portions of Freehold Township were taken to form Upper Freehold Township ( c. ![]() Freehold Township was first formed on October 31, 1693, and was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798. ![]()
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