Freewood Acres is an
unincorporated community located within
Howell Township in
Monmouth County, in the
U.S. state of
New Jersey. The area is made up of mostly single-story homes arranged along a
street grid
In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.
Two inherent characteristics of the grid plan, frequent intersections and orthogona ...
in the northern reaches of the
Pine Barrens.
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 (US 9) is a north–south United States highway in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in the Northeastern United States. It is one of only two U.S. Highways with a ferry connection (the Cape May–Lewes Ferry, between ...
runs through the center of the community just north of its interchange with
Interstate 195. The Land O'Pines Elementary School and
Manasquan Reservoir County Park exist to the east of the community.
It became the center of the
Kalmyk American community in the latter part of the 20th century.
References
Neighborhoods in Howell Township, New Jersey
Unincorporated communities in Monmouth County, New Jersey
Unincorporated communities in New Jersey
Kalmyk diaspora
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