Allaire State Park and the Historic Village
National Register Of Historic Places · Farmingdale, New Jersey
A restored bog-iron company town in Monmouth County where James P. Allaire smelted ore from the streambeds between 1822 and the 1840s to supply his own marine-engine works in New York. ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE LIVED HERE and the village was self-contained — a general store, a bakery, a carpenter's shop, a church, workers' row housing and the furnace stack, most of which still stands. Beside it runs the PINE CREEK RAILROAD, the oldest operating steam narrow-gauge railroad in New Jersey, which is a separate operation with a separate ticket and is the reason most families actually come.
4265 Atlantic Avenue, Farmingdale, New Jersey, 07727, United States
THE VILLAGE AND PARK ARE FREE TO WALK, with a seasonal parking fee on summer weekends and holidays and free parking otherwise, open dawn to dusk. HOW MANY VILLAGE BUILDINGS ARE OPEN VARIES ENORMOUSLY by day and season — buildings are staffed seasonally and most are locked out of season, so ask at the visitor centre on arrival. THE PINE CREEK RAILROAD IS A COMPLETELY SEPARATE OPERATION with its own ticket and its own limited schedule — weekends and holidays in season plus special events, NOT every day the park is open. CHECK BOTH SCHEDULES SEPARATELY BEFORE TRAVELLING; they do not align. Halloween events in October and lantern events in December are separately ticketed and the busiest of the year.
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