Editing Tinton Falls, New Jersey (section)

==History==
The area that is now known as Tinton Falls was originally settled by Europeans in the late 1600s, probably beginning with the initial land purchases from the [[Lenape|Lenni Lenape]] Native Americans in 1664.<ref name="James S. Brown 1976 5–9">{{cite book| title=Historical Scrapbook of Tinton Falls, New Jersey| year=1976| publisher=The Tinton Falls Bicentennial Committee| pages=5–9| url=http://www.tintonfalls.com/filestorage/121/673/267/TFHistory.pdf| author=James S. Brown| editor=William A. Barrett}}</ref> [[hydropower|Water power]] and iron ore were likely the incentives that encouraged settlement: shortly after [the land was purchased], a man by the name of James Grover had an ironworks built along the river. Grover was likely the founder of the community, which, in the 1600s, was named "New Shrewsbury".<ref name="James S. Brown 1976 5–9"/> At this time, the waterfall was known to be about {{convert|30|ft}} high;<ref name="Harry B. Weiss and Howard R. Kemble 1976 31–36">{{cite book| title=Historical Scrapbook of Tinton Falls, New Jersey| year=1976| publisher=The Tinton Falls Bicentennial Committee| pages=31–36| url=http://www.tintonfalls.com/filestorage/121/673/267/TFHistory.pdf| author=Harry B. Weiss and Howard R. Kemble}}</ref><ref name="Randall Gabrielan 1999">Gabrelan, Randall. [https://books.google.com/books?id=HOVeL1y-aswC ''The American Century Series: Tinton Falls in the Twentieth Century''], [[Arcadia Publishing]], 1999. {{ISBN|9780738564753}}. Accessed June 7, 2015.</ref> erosion and the destruction of the dam near the ironworks have led to its diminishment.

===The ironworks===
Grover's [[ironworks]] was the central fixture of the community, and it was one of the oldest built in the country, predated only by buildings in [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] and [[Massachusetts]].<ref name="James S. Brown 1976 5–9"/> In 1675, a half-interest in the ironworks company was purchased by Colonel Lewis Morris, [who obtained a title granting him {{convert|3540|acre|km2}} along the Shrewsbury River]. Morris also obtained land owned by Bartholomew Applegate, who had built a corn mill on the other side of the river. Morris, who procured the land for iron mining, named his holdings "Tintern Manor," after his family lands in [[Monmouthshire]], Great Britain.<ref name=TFHistory>Barrett, William A. (ed.) [http://www.tintonfalls.com/filestorage/121/673/267/TFHistory.pdf ''Historical Scrapbook of Tinton Falls, New Jersey''], The Tinton Falls Bicentennial Committee, 1976. Accessed October 12, 2015.</ref><ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=31 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed October 12, 2015.</ref><ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n299 <!-- pg=300 --> ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''], p. 300. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed October 12, 2015.</ref> [[Tintern Abbey]], located in Monmouthshire, [[Wales]], is often accepted as the namesake of Tinton Falls.<ref name="Harry B. Weiss and Howard R. Kemble 1976 31–36"/><ref name="Randall Gabrielan 1999"/> [[File:Tintern Abbey and Courtyard.jpg|left|thumb|alt=Tintern Abbey|Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, Wales, is often accepted as the namesake of Tinton Falls.]] In 1691, Colonel Morris died, leaving the ironworks and Tinton Manor (a corruption of "Tintern Manor") to his nephew of the same name. By 1714, the ironworks had become less profitable, but mention of a Tinton Falls ironworks can be found as late as 1844.<ref name=TFHistory/> Morris brought in dozens of African slaves to mine the ore resulting in the nickname the "Iron Plantation", with the highest number of slaves being in Tinton Falls at that time in the colony of New Jersey, though in the mid-18th century it had the largest number of emancipated slaves in the 13 colonies, as residents followed the preaching of abolitionist [[John Woolman]].<ref name=Thinking/>

===Separation from Shrewsbury Township===
In 1693, Tinton Manor and the surrounding lands were defined as part of Shrewsbury Township. At this time, Shrewsbury included all of the land in eastern Monmouth County, but lost land due to the creation of a large number of new municipalities over the years, including the borough of Shrewsbury in 1926. In July 1950, Tinton Falls and Wayside left Shrewsbury Township, renaming themselves the Borough of New Shrewsbury. To avoid postal confusion and mix-ups with the surrounding borough and township of Shrewsbury, the residents of New Shrewsbury voted to rename the community as "The Borough of Tinton Falls" in 1975.<ref>{{cite book|title=Know Your Town: Tinton Falls|year=1998|publisher=The League of Women Voters, Greater Red Bank Area|author=Edmund Constantini}}</ref><ref>Phalon, Richard. [https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/20/archives/towns-act-to-end-a-mixup-on-names-towns-seek-to-end-mixup-over.html "Towns Act to End A Mixup on Names; Towns Seek to End Mixup Over Towns"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 20, 1975. Accessed October 28, 2013. "What's in a name? Confusion, if you happen to live in the Monmouth County community of New Shrewsbury (as distinguished from neighboring Shrewsbury Township and the Borough of Shrewsbury) or in the Ocean County community of Dover Township (as distinguished from, Dover, which is in Morris County, well to the north)."</ref>