Freehold Regional High School District history

The Paradise Grove School was built in 1825.

The East Freehold School was built in 1843 on Denise’s Corner on Dutch Lane Road.

About the year 1847 teaching licenses began to be granted by town superintendents of education.

The year was 1850 and many inhabitants of Freehold and their descendants were educated here.

This concept began to change by the mid-1800. It took until 1867 to get the school system established.

Beers 1873 Atlas of Monmouth County lists 28 business.

A second school was built and was formerly known as the Dutch Lane school, it became known as the East Freehold School in 1878.

The offices of the Township were established in Englishtown and remained there until 1888.

Donovan was a student at the school starting in 1901.

In 1909, a public school was built in Englishtown on the corner of Main and Pine Streets.

She then returned to the school and remained it’s teacher until 1935 when the school districts of Freehold Township were consolidated and all teaching was done from the new West Freehold School on Route 537.

Great growth occurred between 1960 and the present day when developers bought farms and built houses.

Manalapan and Englishtown formally joined as a regional elementary district in 1963.

On the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle, in 1978, the State opened the 1,520 acre Monmouth Battlefield State Park.

The first book, “Manalapan in Three Centuries” was written by James S. Brown in 1991.

The six districts might be considered comparable to the six schools that comprised the district through 2001.