During 1994, we celebrated the 150th year of Jackson's existence as an incorporated municipality in the State of New Jersey. As the handwritten Legislative Act reads, "Having been three times read in the Council (the State Senate) on February 29, 1844," and "having been three times read in the House of Assembly on March 6, 1844, it is hereby set off from the said Townships of Upper Freehold, Freehold and Dover into a separate Township to be known by the name of the Township of Jackson... in the said County of Monmouth."