Marlboro Township

The history of Marlboro Township is both fascinating and diverse, including topics as varied as some of the first airplanes, a landmark greenhouse, and the once booming local potato industry. This collection includes many scenes and reminders of Marlboro s textured past and a timely look into its bright future. Marlboro Township presents a once-rural Monmouth County town on its way to modern suburbia. Among the many images collected for this volume are those that reveal Marlboro s successful agricultural past. The region was once the nation s largest grower of potatoes, while Marlboro had industrial

beginnings with a large tomato factory. The township also boasted the area s greatest greenhouse a structure so large that it became part of an aerial road map for World War II aviators. Moreover, dramatic aerial views capture Marlboro s aviation

history, from the first private owners of a Wright Brothers plane to a post World War II airport built solely through personal initiative. This book presents the well-known and the lesser-known places, people, and events that make up the broad perspective of Marlboro s story."