Seabrook is an

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located within Upper Deerfield Township in

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, in the

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. The area is served as

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ZIP code 08302. The unincorporated community and the

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Seabrook Farms Seabrook Farms is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Seabrook, which is in turn located in Upper Deerfield Township, in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Vineland- ...

within it are each named after Charles F. Seabrook, a businessman who at one point ran the largest irrigated

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in the world in this region. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population for

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08302 was 46,872.DP-1 Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 - 2010 Demographic Profile Data for ZCTA 08302
,

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. Accessed December 28, 2014. As of the 2000 United States census, the population was 44,450.

Climate

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the

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system, Seabrook has a

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, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

Seabrook Farms

Charles F. Seabrook and his three sons ran a frozen foods business in Seabrook. During World War II, they faced a labor shortage for their food processing plants. This led the company to recruit interned

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starting in late 1943 and to bring in after the war. Within a year, nearly 1,000 workers had relocated to Seabrook from

Japanese American internment During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. Abou ...

camps, and the total number of Japanese Americans resettled there reached close to 3,000. Many transplanted families remained at Seabrook after the war where the company continued to grow and prosper. Also recruited were Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry who had been rounded up and transported to American internment camps run by the U.S. Justice Department.Niiya, Brian. ''Japanese American History''. 1993, page 191Nanami, Masaharu (

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'', Sep 16, 2009. These Latin American internees were eventually, through the efforts of civil rights attorney Wayne M. Collins, offered "

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" relocation to Seabrook.Higashide, Seiichi. (2000
''Adios to Tears,'' p. 179.
/ref> Many eventually became naturalized American citizens. In October 1994, some area residents who used to work at Seabrook Farms opened a small museum called the Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center. The museum has two rooms with displays and video kiosks that tell the story of Seabrook Farms and the people who worked and lived there.

References

External links

Census 2000 Fact Sheet for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 08302
from the

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