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Edison Portland Cement Company

1901 - 1941

 
 
Edison Portland Cement Company Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Alan Edelson, July 23, 2012
1. Edison Portland Cement Company Marker
Inscription. Manufactured the cement for "The Concrete Mile". The first concrete road in the state of New Jersey.
View the top of the cement plant silo through the viewfinder.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Industry & Commerce.
 
Location. 40° 42.741′ N, 75° 5.478′ W. Marker is in New Village, New Jersey, in Warren County. It can be reached from New Jersey Route 57 half a mile west of Stewartsville Road, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Stewartsville NJ 08886, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in New Jersey’s North Jersey. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Morris Canal Bread Lock No 7 West (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); The Concrete Mile (approx. half a mile away); Honor Roll (approx. 1.7 miles away); Inclined Plane / Morris Canal Inclined Plane No 9 West (approx. 2.8 miles away); Franklin Township Veterans Monument (approx. 3.4 miles away); Greenwich Township Veterans Monument (approx. 3.6 miles away); Old Greenwich Cemetery (approx. 3.6 miles away); General William Maxwell (approx. 3.6 miles away).
 
Other markers no longer nearby. The Concrete Township (was approx. half a mile away but has been replaced with another
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marker now near it); a different marker also named The Concrete Mile (was approx. half a mile away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).
 
Edison Portland Cement Company Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Alan Edelson, July 23, 2012
2. Edison Portland Cement Company Marker
Looking through the view finder
Edison Portland Cement Company Silos image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Alan Edelson, July 23, 2012
3. Edison Portland Cement Company Silos
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on July 24, 2012, by Alan Edelson of Union Twsp., New Jersey. This page has been viewed 2,362 times since then and 142 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on July 24, 2012, by Alan Edelson of Union Twsp., New Jersey. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
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