Editing Holmdel Township, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[File:Dr. Robert W. Cooke Medical Office front.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Dr. Robert W. Cooke Medical Office]], built c.1823 by Robert W. Cooke as a medical office.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Cooke's Medical Building |url=https://holmdelhistoricalsociety.org/dr-cooke-s-medical-building |website=holmdelhistoricalsociety.org |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Cooke's |url=https://holmdelhistoricalsociety.org/the-cooke-s |website=holmdelhistoricalsociety.org |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref>]]
[[Image:Horn Antenna-in Holmdel, New Jersey.jpeg|thumb|right|The [[Holmdel Horn Antenna]]]]
The [[Lenape]] people were present in the 1600s when Europeans first showed up in the area that is now Holmdel.  Holmdel was part of the [[Monmouth Tract]] setup by the English in 1675.  The area was part of [[Middletown Township, New Jersey|Middletown township]] when that was set up in 1693, but, split off in 1848 to form part of [[Hazlet, New Jersey|Raritan township (now Hazlet)]] which in turn split off  Holmdel Township (February 23, 1857).<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Holmdel |url=https://holmdelhistoricalsociety.org/history-of-holmdel |website=holmdelhistoricalsociety.org |access-date=15 January 2024}}</ref><ref name=Story/>

The earliest work on [[radio astronomy]] was conducted by [[Bell Labs]] engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky]] in 1931 in Holmdel.<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1933/05/05/archives/new-radio-waves-traced-to-centre-of-the-milky-way-mysterious-static.html "New radio waves traced to centre of the Milky Way; Mysterious static, reported by K.G. Jansky, held to differ from cosmic ray. Direction is unchanging. Recorded and tested for more than year to identify it as from Earth's galaxy. Its intensity is low. Only delicate receiver is able to register -- No evidence of interstellar signaling."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722184820/https://www.nytimes.com/1933/05/05/archives/new-radio-waves-traced-to-centre-of-the-milky-way-mysterious-static.html |date=July 22, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 15, 1933. Accessed July 13, 2011. "Discovery of mysterious radio waves which appear to come from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy was announced yesterday by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. The discovery was made during research studies on static by Karl G. Jansky of the radio research department at Holmdel, N.J., and was described by him in a paper delivered before the International Scientific Radio Union in Washington."</ref><ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1950/02/15/archives/karl-g-jansky-44-authority-in-radio-bell-laboratories-engineer.html "Karl G. Jansky, 44, authority in radio; Bell Laboratories engineer dies--discovered waves of extraterrestrial origin"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722185237/https://www.nytimes.com/1950/02/15/archives/karl-g-jansky-44-authority-in-radio-bell-laboratories-engineer.html |date=July 22, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 15, 1950. Accessed July 13, 2011. "His work was carried on principally at the Bell Laboratories installation at Holmdel, N. J."</ref><ref>[http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1998/june/4/2.html "Detective work leads to monument honoring the father of radio astronomy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419144954/http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1998/june/4/2.html |date=April 19, 2013 }}, [[Alcatel-Lucent]] press release dated June 3, 1998. Accessed July 13, 2011. "A lot of detective work by Tony Tyson and Robert Wilson will lead to a June 8 ceremony at Bell Labs Holmdel facility to honor Karl Jansky, the first person to hear radio waves from outer space. Jansky's discovery in 1931, which was not publicly discussed until a 1933 page-one article in the New York Times, spawned the field of radio astronomy."</ref> In 1964, [[Arno Penzias]] and [[Robert Woodrow Wilson]] of Bell Labs discovered evidence for [[cosmic microwave background radiation]] while performing research with the [[Holmdel Horn Antenna]], earning them the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4k.htm Astronomy and Astrophysics: Horn Antenna] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512093810/http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4k.htm |date=May 12, 2008 }}, [[National Park Service]]. Accessed November 17, 2007.</ref>

The [[PNC Bank Arts Center]] is a 10,800-seat outdoor [[amphitheatre]] concert venue located in Holmdel. [[PNC Financial Services]] agreed to a deal in 1996 under which it would pay $9.2 million for the [[naming rights]], as part an effort by the Parkway Authority to avoid toll increases, a deal that was extended for another five years in 2006.<ref>Curran, John via [[Associated Press]]. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116605734/garden-state-arts-center-to-be-named/ "PNC to add its name to N.J. arts center; the bank will pay $9.2 million.; that will delay the need for a Garden State Parkway toll increase."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116210746/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116605734/garden-state-arts-center-to-be-named/ |date=January 16, 2023 }}, ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', July 3, 1996. Accessed January 16,2023, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Like Candlestick Park, the Brendan Byrne Arena and dozens of New Year's Day bowl games, the Garden State Arts Center is trading in its name for cash. The 10,800-seat arena on the Garden State Parkway will be renamed the PNC Bank Arts Center in exchange for $9.2 million, officials said yesterday."</ref><ref>Staff. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/144405340 "Local Briefs; PNV retains naming rights"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116210746/https://www.newspapers.com/image/144405340 |date=January 16, 2023 }}, ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', May 4, 2006. Accessed July 13, 2011. "PNC Financial Services Group has retained the naming rights to PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel through 2011, through 2011 a company spokesman said Wednesday."</ref> The facility, which originally opened in 1968, was commissioned by the Garden State Parkway Authority and built based on a design by architect [[Edward Durell Stone]] at a cost of $6.75&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|6.75|1968|fmt=c|r=1}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref>Ericson, Raymond. [https://www.nytimes.com/1968/05/26/archives/new-names-on-the-map-new-names.html "New Names on the Map"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722190813/https://www.nytimes.com/1968/05/26/archives/new-names-on-the-map-new-names.html |date=July 22, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 26, 1968. Accessed July 13, 2011. "Almost completed at the former site is the Garden State Arts Center, which must be unique as the creation of a highway authority. An amphitheater accommodating 5,000, it was designed by Edward Durell Stone, and it is 25 miles south of Newark on the Garden State Parkway."</ref><ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/29/archives/jersey-arts-center-will-open-june-15.html "Jersey Arts Center Will Open June 15"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722191136/https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/29/archives/jersey-arts-center-will-open-june-15.html |date=July 22, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 29, 1968. Accessed July 13, 2011. "The new $6.75-million Garden State Arts Center will open June 15 with a concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy and Van Cliburn as guest soloist."</ref> Adjacent to it is the [[New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial]], which opened on May 7, 1995.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/22/nyregion/pulse-planning-for-memorial-day.html "Pulse; Planning for Memorial Day"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116210746/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/22/nyregion/pulse-planning-for-memorial-day.html |date=January 16, 2023 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 22, 1995. Accessed January 16, 2023. "Vietnam veterans were honored on May 7, with the opening of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Holmdel."</ref>

In 1977, Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded many of his songs from his album ''[[Darkness on the Edge of Town]]'' in an old farmhouse in Holmdel.<ref name=Darkness>Gardner, Elysa. [https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2010-10-01-springsteencov01_CV_N.htm "Bruce Springsteen explores a time of 'Darkness'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127190945/http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2010-10-01-springsteencov01_CV_N.htm |date=January 27, 2011 }}, ''[[USA Today]]'', October 2, 2010. Accessed March 15, 2011. "Darkness also was haunted and enriched by Springsteen's struggle to come to terms with his success and with a growing sense of social awareness. He wrote most of the songs while living on a farm in Holmdel, N.J., not far from the working-class neighborhood where he was raised."</ref>

[[VoIP]] provider [[Vonage|Vonage Holdings, Inc.]], relocated its world headquarters from [[Edison, New Jersey|Edison]] to Holmdel in November 2005, occupying the building that formerly housed [[Prudential Financial|Prudential Property Casualty & Insurance]].<ref>Willis, David P. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/app/access/1754218171.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+15%2C+2006&author=DAVID+P+WILLIS&pub=Asbury+Park+Press&desc=PHONE+TALK&pqatl=google Phone Talk"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107104625/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/app/access/1754218171.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+15,+2006&author=DAVID+P+WILLIS&pub=Asbury+Park+Press&desc=PHONE+TALK&pqatl=google |date=November 7, 2012 }}, ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', October 15, 2006. Accessed July 13, 2011. "It has been a memorable year for Vonage Holdings Corp the nation's largest Internet telephone company.... Vonage became one of the Jersey Shore's largest employers in late 2005 when it moved its headquarters from Edison to Holmdel. The renovated 350,000-square-foot building it occupies was once home to Prudential Financial Inc.'s property and casualty division."</ref>