Since the year 2000, Brick Township has been the safest "city" (population over 75,000) in New Jersey. The museum has a gift shop and runs tours of the property daily.Īfter hovering for years in the top five, in 2006, the township earned the title of "America's Safest City", out of 371 cities included nationwide in the 13th annual Morgan Quitno survey. The museum is the original Havens home which lies on a small plot of farmland. The Havens Homestead Museum is dedicated to the Havens family that originally settled in the Laurelton/Burrsville section of Brick. In 1963, voters rejected a referendum that would have changed the township's name to "Laurelton". Portions of the township were taken to form Point Pleasant Beach (May 18, 1886), Bay Head (June 15, 1886), Lakewood Township (March 23, 1892), Mantoloking (April 10, 1911) and Point Pleasant (April 21, 1920). The township was named after Joseph Brick, the owner of Bergen Iron Works located on the Metedeconk River. Brick Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 15, 1850, from portions of both Dover Township (now Toms River Township) and Howell Township. The mainland and beach area of the town are not geographically adjacent. While the majority of Brick Township is located on the mainland, Ocean Beaches I, II and III are situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2020 United States Census, the township had a population of 73,620, making it the state's 13th-largest municipality and the third most populous municipality in Ocean County (behind Lakewood Township and Toms River Township), having seen a decline of 1,452 residents (−1.9%) from its population of 75,072 in the 2010 Census. Brick Township is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.
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