Editing Tinton Falls, New Jersey (section)

===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/>