The influx came with the founding of ROVA Farms in 1934. Jackson's history was influenced by a large community of Russians who began arriving in significant numbers in 1934, but had been an earlier presence when the Lakehurst testing center tested ammunition for the Tsar. Because of that collapse, land values decreased sharply, setting the stage for development into suburbia. Poultry farming boomed in the 1940s, but by 1955, when Perdue moved its operations to the Maryland/Delaware area, this industry was dead.
Munitions testing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station originally brought 1,000 people to the area. The general consensus is that the name honors President Andrew Jackson.ĭuring the early 20th century, the population varied according to economic fortunes. Some subscribe to the notion that the township was named after William Jackson who owned a sawmill at Jackson's Mills, but recent historians dismissed the suggestion pointing out that there were citizens much more prominent and affluent at the time. Some discussion centers on the origin of Jackson's name. Other early industries were cranberry cultivation, charcoal and tar production, and for a short time oil drilling, an unproductive venture. The community's prosperity was dependent, in those times, on a successful harvest.
The trickle of settlement continued through the years and when the state legislature created the township in March, 1844, the population was 800, scattered in a series of isolated hamlets and villages, interspersed with sawmills, gristmills, and large farms of a hundred acres or more. Settlers were generally of English descent coming from the New York area, especially Long Island, or in some cases, were whalers who had moved inland from the coast. European settlement commenced shortly after Richard Nicholls, English governor of New York, granted the Monmouth Patent in April 1665 to 12 families who had already settled in Middletown on lands purchased from the native Indians. Jackson Township is a classic example of a municipality becoming a suburb after existing for many years as a rural area.
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