Aside from soldiers fighting there, Monmouth County, New Jersey has another connection to the Gettysburg Battlefield. World renowned sculptor and artist Donald DeLue called Leonardo home for over 30 years. He had a house and studio on Highland Avenue where he created some of his largest and most well-known statues. He was commissioned for three separate works at Gettysburg, all of which were Confederate subjects. The Soldiers and Sailors of the Confederacy (1965), The Louisiana State Monument (1

We are back with another edition of Monmouth County Then and Now! Today we are highlighting the Strauss Mansion in Atlantic Highlands. Built near the highest point on the eastern seaboard south of Maine, during the rapid development of high-end “summer cottages” for wealthy New Yorkers, the Queen Anne Style Strauss Mansion is now the 2½ story, twenty-one room home of the Atlantic Highlands Historical Society, which saved it from demolition in 1980. Strauss Mansion is the only Queen Anne style st