![]() I've been shooting for over fifty years and have belonged to gun ranges in several states and several gun ranges in New Jersey. Shooting on their lanes has become more of a hassle than the fun activity. Over the past two or three years personnel have become unfriendly. The sales people would talk to you and were friendly. In the beginning it was a fun place to shoot. They made a profit from selling clams and oysters.I've have been shooting at Shooters Sports Center since they opened. also had a ship which his son, Daniel, sailed the West Indian routes. One of the first recorded ships of the township was a sloop belonging to Thomas Ridgway Sr. ![]() Falkenberg was a linguist, fluent in the Lenape language, and was considered southern New Jersey’s foremost language interpreter involving land transactions between the Indians and the European settlers, particularly the English Quakers. This tract included the two islands of Monhunk and Minnicunk later known as Wills Island and Osborn Island. Falkenberg settled on an 800-acre tract of land that he had acquired from the Lenni Lenape Indians in 1674, and a 1697 deed re-confirmed this earlier purchase. Though he was from Holstein (now in Germany), his first wife was a Finn and part of the Swedish community. The first European to settle the township was Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg, who likely arrived by 1693 when he does not appear on a census of the Swedes along the Delaware River, where he had lived for nearly three decades. The first known account of the town was made by Captain Cornelius Jacobsen May in 1614. Originally part of Burlington County, Little Egg Harbor took its name from the portion of a bay called Egg Harbor (known today as Little Egg Harbor) by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests.
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