unincorporated community
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New Jersey
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.Locality Search State of New Jersey. Accessed February 13, 2015. The settlement is located at the intersection of Prospect Plains Road ( County Route 614) and Applegarth Road ( CR 619). Retail businesses generally line the two aforementioned county roads in the area but some single-family houses are clustered around the site of the Camden & Amboy railroad crossing of Prospect Plains Road.
The location is the site of the Monroe Oak, a
white oak
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tree present at the time of the township's establishment in 1838. Following the attempted development at the site of the tree to a gas station, the tree has been preserved and became the official symbol of Monroe Township. Prospect Plains was also the site of a railroad station on the Camden & Amboy Railroad, a one-room school house, and was the long-time home of the township's municipal office.