Eatontown, New Jersey
The Borough of Eatontown, home to Eatontown Industrial Park, an ever-growing corporate headquarters park for scores of national and international companies, was founded in commerce more than a century ago when Thomas Eaton built his grist mill on the shores of Wampum Lake. The site is now the centerpiece of the borough’s scenic reservoir and falls at Wampum Park, one of the Eatontown’s many facilities for the active and passive recreational enjoyment of its 15,000 residents.
Careful preservation of Eatontown’s open space areas has made possible construction of sports fields and nature walks, and the preservation of undeveloped open land. Eatontown’s small downtown business district is in stark contrast with Monmouth Mall just a few miles south but still in Eatontown. Small and large thrive side by side.
Monmouth County’s largest employer, the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command – Fort Monmouth has been Eatontown’s immediate good neighbor since the carrier pigeon days of World War I through all the years of the Signal Corps to present day space-age communications developed at the Fort. Many employees of Fort Monmouth call Eatontown home.
