📜Historical Events1950s
Did you know this about Sandy Hook?
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During the Cold War, Sandy Hook housed nuclear missiles at Nike Site NY-56, part of the defense ring protecting New York City.
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From the 1920s-1960s, Bradley Beach was known as "Chinatown by the Sea" and had the largest Chinese-American summer community on the East Coast.
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During WWII, the U.S. Army used Island Beach as a rocket testing facility, firing experimental anti-aircraft missiles over the Atlantic Ocean from 1942-1945.
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Henry Phipps, who planned to develop Island Beach, was Andrew Carnegie's business partner in U.S. Steel. His estate hunting lodge still stands in the park as the Aeolium nature center.
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