Freehold, New Jersey, USA (where the singer Bruce Springsteen grew up)

Freehold is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It is the county seat of Monmouth County. What is now Freehold Borough was originally incorporated as a town by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 25, 1869, from portions within Freehold Township. The town became independent of the township in 1888.