Cream Ridge, New Jersey

Cream Ridge, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
Center of Cream Ridge at CR 539 and Burlington Path Road
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Coordinates: 40°08′06″N 74°31′27″W / 40.13500°N 74.52417°W / 40.13500; -74.52417Coordinates: 40°08′06″N 74°31′27″W / 40.13500°N 74.52417°W / 40.13500; -74.52417
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Monmouth
Township	Upper Freehold
Elevation^[1]	131 ft (40 m)
GNIS feature ID	875715^[1]

Cream Ridge is an unincorporated community located within Upper Freehold Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.^[2] The rural area is made up of farmland (including many horse farms) with small businesses located along County Route 539 and many homes dotting the landscape.^[3] The soil in Cream Ridge is Freehold Loam, which is some of the richest soil in the State of New Jersey. Many of the early residents became relatively wealthy "gentleman" farmers, with the actual farm work done by tenant farmers. Most of the early families were Presbyterians, Quakers, or Northern Baptists. Some of the surnames associated with the area are Holmes, Meirs, Rue, Cox, Wright, Lawrence, and Ridgway. Nathaniel Scudder Rue, Jr., the Founder and first President of the Pemberton & Hightstown Railroad (later the Union Transportation Company), lived in Cream Ridge. He was also the Founder of the First National Bank of Hightstown, the first national bank chartered in New Jersey. Nathaniel Scudder Rue's son, James Lawrence Rue, served in the New Jersey State Legislature. The "gentleman" farmer lifestyle was dramatically curtailed during the Great Depression and after WWII, although remnants of this bygone lifestyle existed into the 1980's.

References

1 2 "Cream Ridge". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
↑ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 21, 2015.
↑ Google (May 17, 2015). "Aerial view of Cream Ridge" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved May 17, 2015.

Municipalities and communities of Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
County seat: Freehold Borough
Cities	Asbury Park Long Branch
Boroughs	Allenhurst Allentown Atlantic Highlands Avon-by-the-Sea Belmar Bradley Beach Brielle Deal Eatontown Englishtown Fair Haven Farmingdale Freehold Borough Highlands Interlaken Keansburg Keyport Lake Como Little Silver Manasquan Matawan Monmouth Beach Neptune City Oceanport Red Bank Roosevelt Rumson Sea Bright Sea Girt Shrewsbury Spring Lake Spring Lake Heights Tinton Falls Union Beach West Long Branch
Townships	Aberdeen Colts Neck Freehold Hazlet Holmdel Howell Manalapan Marlboro Middletown Millstone Neptune Ocean Shrewsbury Upper Freehold Wall
Village	Loch Arbour
CDPs	Allenwood Belford Cliffwood Beach East Freehold Fairview Leonardo Lincroft Morganville Navesink North Middletown Oakhurst Ocean Grove Port Monmouth Ramtown Robertsville Shark River Hills Strathmore Wanamassa West Belmar West Freehold Yorketown
Other unincorporated communities	Adelphia Algers Mills Allaire Ardena Ardmore Estates Arneytown Baileys Corner Bairdsville Beacon Hill Bergen Mills Bergerville Blansingburg Bradevelt Bradley Park Branchport Bucks Mill Burlington Heights Candlewood Carmerville Carrs Corner Carrs Tavern Centerville Chapel Hill Charleston Springs Clarks Mills Clarksburg Claytons Corner Cliffwood Cold Indian Springs Collingwood Park Cooks Mills Cooleys Corner Coxs Corner Crawford Corners Cream Ridge Deal Park Dogs Corners East Keansburg East Long Branch Elberon Elberon Park Ellisdale Elton Ely Elys Corner Emleys Hill Everett Fair Play Fairfield Fort Plains Freewood Acres Freneau Galilee Georgia Glendola Gordons Corner Green Grove Hamilton Harmony Hendrickson Corners Henningers Mills Herberts Corner Hillsdale Hilton Hockhockson Holland Holmeson Homes Mills Hornerstown Imlaystown Jerseyville Kirbys Mills Lafayette Mills Lake Club Land of Pines Larrabees Leonardville Little Silver Point Locust Low Moor Lower Squankum Macedonia Manasquan Park Marlboro Matthews Maxim Mechanicsville Millhurst Monmouth Heights at Manalapan Monmouth Heights at Marlboro Monmouth Hills Montrose Morrells Corner Mount Pleasant Natco Navesink Beach Nelsonville New Bedford New Canton New Monmouth New Sharon Normandie North Centerville North Long Branch North Spring Lake Oak Glen Oak Hill Oakhurst Manor Oakland Mills Oceanic Orchard Estates Osbornes Mills Parkway Pines Perrineville Phalanx Philips Mills Pine Brook Pleasant Valley Pleasant Valley Crossroads Polhemustown Port-au-peck Prospertown Pullentown Red Hill Red Valley Reevytown Remsen Mills River Plaza Robinsville Salem Hill Sands Point Scobeyville Shacks Corner Sharon Shrewsbury (Upper Freehold) Siloam Smithburg Smocks Corner Southard Spring Mill Spring Valley Squankum Sterling Woods Stone Church Stone Tavern Stonehurst East Stonehurst West Sweetman Taylors Mills Tennent Tiltons Corner Town Brook Van Marters Corner Vanderburg Villa Park Walnford Waterloo Waterwitch Wayside Wertheins Corner West Allenhurst West Deal West End West Farms West Grove West Keansburg West Shrewsbury Whitesville Whittier Oaks Wickatunk Wileys Corner Winston Park Wyckoff Mills

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