Prospect Plains, New Jersey | |
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| Coordinates:40°19′26″N74°28′16″W / 40.32389°N 74.47111°W /40.32389; -74.47111 | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New Jersey |
| County | Middlesex |
| Township | Monroe |
| Elevation | 128 ft (39 m) |
| GNIS feature ID | 879505[1] |
Prospect Plains is anunincorporated community located withinMonroe Township inMiddlesex County, in theU.S. state ofNew Jersey.[2] The settlement is located at the intersection of Prospect Plains Road (County Route 614) and Applegarth Road (CR 619). Retail businesses generally line the two aforementioned county roads in the area but some single-family houses are clustered around the site of theCamden & Amboy railroad crossing of Prospect Plains Road.[3]
The location is the site of the Monroe Oak, awhite oak tree present at the time of the township's establishment in 1838. Following the attempted development at the site of the tree to a gas station, the tree has been preserved and became the official symbol of Monroe Township.[4][5] Prospect Plains was also the site of a railroad station on the Camden & Amboy Railroad, a one-room school house, and was the long-time home of the township's municipal office.[6]
For one thing, Monroe is a tree-friendly town -- the home, too, of the Monroe Oak, a mammoth specimen of Quercus alba that was here when the town was founded in 1838. It was included in the town's official seal as a symbol of endurance and rootedness.
Back in the late 1960s or early 1970s, Dooley and other residents fought to prevent a proposed gas station from removing the towering oak, she said. During the mid-1970s, Dooley said she helped design the emblem for the township's seal, with the oak at center stage.
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