Last fall, word that Monmouth County Historical Association might sell a priceless painting of the Battle of Monmouth set the local-historian community ablaze with objections. On Monday the MCHA gave ...

On this day in history, June 28, 1778, Mary Ludwig Hays, wife of artilleryman William Hays, offered water to her husband’s battery at the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolution, according ...

FREEHOLD BOROUGH – A “significant” piece of historic artwork depicting George Washington at the Battle of Monmouth may be sold by the Monmouth County Historical Association (MCHA) for millions of ...

In the summer of 1937, shortly after his family donated the painting “Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth” to the Monmouth County Historical Association, Walter B. Howe wrote a series of ...

On this date in history: In 1778, the Continental Army under command of Gen. George Washington defeated the British at Monmouth, N.J. A pair of saddle pistols used by the Marquis de Lafayette during ...

MANALAPAN - In mid-June, the author of "Fatal Sunday," Mark Lender, checked an email address that he had left unmonitored and saw an email from a historian with the Monmouth County Historical Society.

It was on June 28, 1778, that Mary Hays, otherwise known as “Molly Pitcher” assisted Colonial troops at the Battle of Monmouth. There is much that is still unknown about Hays’s role. But she was ...