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=== Creation of new municipalities === Over the centuries, portions of the township have been taken to form [[Stafford Township, New Jersey|Stafford Township]] (March 3, 1750), Dover Township (March 1, 1768, now [[Toms River, New Jersey|Toms River Township]]), [[Howell Township, New Jersey|Howell Township]] (February 23, 1801), [[Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey|Ocean Township]] (February 24, 1849), Atlantic Township (February 18, 1847, now [[Colts Neck Township, New Jersey|Colts Neck]]), [[Red Bank, New Jersey|Red Bank]] (March 17, 1870), [[Eatontown, New Jersey|Eatontown]] (April 4, 1873), [[Rumson, New Jersey|Rumson]] (May 15, 1907),<ref>Honeyman, Abraham Van Doren. [https://books.google.com/books?id=nOkkAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA257 ''Index-analysis of the Statutes of New Jersey, 1896-1909: Together with References to All Acts, and Parts of Acts, in the 'General Statutes' and Pamphlet Laws Expressly Repealed: and the Statutory Crimes of New Jersey During the Same Period''], p. 257. New Jersey Law Journal Publishing Company, 1910. Accessed October 3, 2015.</ref> [[Fair Haven, New Jersey|Fair Haven]] (March 28, 1912), [[Little Silver, New Jersey|Little Silver]] (March 19, 1923), [[Shrewsbury, New Jersey|Shrewsbury borough]] (March 22, 1926) and New Shrewsbury (April 15, 1950, now [[Tinton Falls, New Jersey|Tinton Falls]]). The township was named for [[Shrewsbury]], England.<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=29 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed October 3, 2015.</ref> The remaining land was formerly owned by the Government and called [[Camp Vail]], a complex of 265 homes constructed for families of [[Fort Monmouth]] employees.<ref name=Glance>[https://www.townshipofshrewsbury.com/uploads/3/4/2/9/34299549/2016_township_at-a-glance.pdf Township at a Glance], Township of Shrewsbury. Accessed February 5, 2025. "After several municipalities seceded from the Township to create their own municipality (e.g. Red Bank, Eatontown, and Shrewsbury Borough), the U.S. Army, in cooperation with the Federal Public Housing Authority, bought the remaining land in Shrewsbury Township and constructed 265 homes during World War II (accommodating the influx of personnel assigned to Fort Monmouth)."</ref> After [[World War II]] the government planned to close the site but the established families, with nowhere else to go, purchased the land from the Army with the help of Ann Switek who arranged to maintain the Original Township Charter which had been abandoned. Ann Switek was then elected Town Clerk of Shrewsbury Township and maintained that post for close to 50 years. Camp Vail became [[Alfred Vail]] Mutual Association, one of New Jersey's first [[cooperative housing]] entities. Following the end of federal subsidies to Shrewsbury Township schools and services residents of the community outside the Vail Homes felt that the residents in the homes received undue benefits. They attempted to force the Vail Homes out of Shrewsbury Township but were unable to. They instead seceded from Shrewsbury to form New Shrewsbury which was later renamed Tinton Falls.<ref>Karcher, Alan J. New Jersey's Multiple Municipal Madness. Press, 1998.</ref><ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. [https://nj.gov/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 185. Accessed May 30, 2024.</ref>
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