Tennent is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

located within Manalapan Township in Monmouth County,

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, United States. Considered to be the historic center of Manalapan Township, Tennent is home to the Old Tennent Church and

Old Tennent Cemetery The Old Tennent Cemetery is a non-denominational community cemetery adjacent to the Old Tennent Church in Manalapan, New Jersey, with which it was affiliated until 1910. The cemetery was established in 1731, when the congregation moved from its lo ...

William Tennent William Tennent (1673 – May 6, 1746) was an early Scottish American Presbyterian minister and educator in British North America. Early life Tennent was born in Mid Calder, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, in 1673. He graduated from the Uni ...

(the church and area's namesake) served as pastor at the church for over 40 years. Tennent was also the center of a historic community of African Americans dating back to the early nineteenth century. The location of Tennent is located at the modern intersection of County Route 522 and Tennent Road ( CR 3) and is near the limits of Monmouth Battlefield State Park.

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Tennent include: *

Carl R. Woodward Carl Raymond Woodward (July 20, 1890 – October 2, 1974) was an American educator and college administrator who served from 1951 to 1958 as the first president of the University of Rhode Island. He was born in the Tennent section of Manalapan To ...

(1890–1974), educator and college administrator who served from 1951 to 1958 as the first president of the

University of Rhode Island The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of the state of Rhode Isla ...

.Herron, Elizabeth; and Warnock-Weiner, Nancy
"Inventory to the Records of the Rutgers University Office of the Secretary (Carl Raymond Woodward), 1928-1943"

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

, May 2002. Accessed February 2, 2022. "Dr. Carl Raymond Woodward was born July 20, 1890, in Tennent, New Jersey. He attended Freehold High School in New Jersey, graduating in 1906."

References

Neighborhoods in Manalapan Township, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in Monmouth County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in New Jersey {{MonmouthCountyNJ-geo-stub