27 acre manufacturing site and
major local employer
1963 - 200 general Dynamics
1960 - 1963 Art Metal Inc.
1916 - 1960 Security Steel
Office Furniture Corp. — — Map (db m206825) HM
First firehouse - 1919
current structure - 1929; Addition - 1955
Major renovations - 1995
Career firefighters joined volunteers - 2020
Est. 1913 — — Map (db m206821) HM
First Elementary school No. 4 built 1912
Served as civic center
and community meeting place
School No. 5 added 1948
Additions in 1921 and 1968 — — Map (db m206823) HM
Formerly White Star Farm
Pichalski family tavern & picnic garden
Avenel social site for nearly 80 years
Replaced by
Maple Tree Manor 2003
Circa 1830 — — Map (db m206819) HM
First Mass held in School No. 4
First church dedicated 1939
Served former Rahway Prison &
Woodbridge Development Center
Current church built 1956
Est. September 1920 — — Map (db m206822) HM
Original structure mid 18th century
James Hora addition, 1781-1852r
Van Wyck farmhouse
John & Etheldreda Andregg home
1926-1956
Mrs. Andregg active in NJ Garden Clubs — — Map (db m199089) HM
Home of David L & Gertrude Hedges
Bridesmaid of Helen Cone
"The Colony"
Planned community for wealthy
businessmen & their families
Promoted by the Cones
1912 — — Map (db m199085) HM
Colonia Memorial
In honor of those who from Colonia have served their country
Historic Memorial Triangle Park
1950
In honor of the brave men and women who lost their lives in the service of their country.
Korea – Vietnam
In honor . . . — — Map (db m148318) WM
Site of Jones sawmill
Grist mill built 1682 by Jonathan Bishop
Library built 1939, bricks from Savage estate.
Colonia town meeting place — — Map (db m190054) HM
"Old Cone Place"
Pre-Revolutionary War House
First residence of the Cone family,
to whom the name Colonia
can be credited
CIRCA 1775 — — Map (db m199090) HM
This gristmill stone commemorates Cranberry Mills, the first industry in Cranbury - erected by Thomas Grubbs in 1737, on the south side of Cranbury Brook. The village, was once called Cranberry or Cranberry Town, changed its name to Cranbury late in . . . — — Map (db m36117) HM
This circa 1741 barn is the oldest in Cranbury and one of the oldest in New Jersey. It is a significant example of barn construction of the 18th century with its beams being hand hewn from white oak. Originally part of the Parsonage Plantation of . . . — — Map (db m93829) HM
On June 26, 1778, Gen. George Washington met here with Col. Alexander Hamilton and Gen. Lafayette to plan what was to become the Battle of Monmouth. — — Map (db m93841) WM
The dam, constructed in the 1800's with rebuilding and repairs through the late 19th century, diverted the Cranbury Brook in order to supply power to the local grist and saw mills.
Local sewer construction in the 1977 unearthed and partially . . . — — Map (db m36399) HM
Civil War MonumentThe Civil War Soldiers Monument in this cemetery, located behind the church building complex, is one of New Jersey’s earliest Civil War monuments. On June 3, 1865, Reverend Joseph Gaston Symmes of the First Presbyterian Church . . . — — Map (db m122264) HM WM
The Sexton's House
The adjacent private home located at 3 Westminster Place was constructed in 1840 as the home of the Sexton of the Church. As with most historic homes in Cranbury, this house has been modified since its original . . . — — Map (db m95880) HM
Dedicated to the Memory of Gunnery Sergeant John A. Basilone of Raritan, NJ, United States Marine Corps.
Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism at Guadalcanal 1942.
Killed in Action at Iwo Jima 1945.
November 30, . . . — — Map (db m60985) WM
The L.J. Smith Farmhouse, circa 1860 stands as a tribute to the 19th century farming community of East Brunswick. Here lived “Apple Kings” and “Master Farmers,” George Smith and his son, Lawrence J. Smith, who were renowned . . . — — Map (db m93891) HM
Built on an indian camping ground, this library faces the route of America's first steam train.
Across the river, stage coaches once plied their way from South Amboy to Burlington. In 1778 Washington's troops passed near the library site on their . . . — — Map (db m96087) HM
Camp Kilmer was the first Army camp constructed for the express purpose of staging Army men to and from the New York Port of Embarkation. In August, 1941, the New York Port of Embarkation, in accordance with a directive from the Secretary of War, . . . — — Map (db m166517) WM
In October 1880. Dr. Ezra M. Hunt of Metuchen listed all the graves in
the Piscatawavtown Burial Ground. He identified five graves in the
south-west corner as the "Colored Burial Ground”. Subsequent to
Dr. Hunt's list. there were two . . . — — Map (db m192905) HM
In 1914, the Danish Brotherhood & Sisterhood Lodges of the North East established the Danish Home for their aged members. The property was a 72 acre farm with an old Victorian house in an area known, at the time, as Raritan Township. The land was . . . — — Map (db m53349) HM
The Oak Tree Pond, used by generations of residents for fishing and skating, has a surface area of one acre, making it the largest body of water in northern Edison. Spring fed, the pond also receives runoff from the surrounding area. The outflow . . . — — Map (db m53341) HM
St. James Episcopal Church was established in 1704. The original structure was built in 1724. In 1835 the church was destroyed by a tornado. It was rebuilt using as much of the original wood and fixtures as possible. The rear section was built in . . . — — Map (db m53332) HM
Plaque 1:
In the fall of 1878, Thomas Edison asked Sarah Jordan, a relative of his wife Mary, to open and operated a boarding house in Menlo Park. She was the daughter of the first wife of Mary’s father Nicholas Stilwell. Moving from Newark, . . . — — Map (db m162083) HM
The Oak Tree Engagement of June 26, 1777 took place in Edison Township near this marker. The engagement was one of four near continuous skirmishes that were known as the Battle of the Short Hills. In late 1776, the revolutionary forces under . . . — — Map (db m213296) HM
The Oak Tree neighborhood is named for the large oak tree which stood at the Oak Tree Corner. A market was located here during the Colonial era. It was through this crossroads during the Revolutionary War that Generals Howe and Cornwallis lead the . . . — — Map (db m53346) HM
The Raritan Indians lived in this valley. Indian trails from the Hudson to the Delaware and from the mountains to the sea crossed the river near here.
Henry Hudson discovered the Raritan in 1609 and the English settled at Piscataway in 1667. . . . — — Map (db m66977) HM
For over 200 years, a farmhouse was located on this site. It was a simple one and one-half story house that had several additions over the years. The house was on a small hill, facing south, with a driveway leading down to New Dover Road. (Center . . . — — Map (db m53338) HM
Plaque 1: This tower marks the site of the experimental laboratory built by Thomas Alva Edison, born Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847. The laboratory structure occupied by the inventor from 1876 to 1886, was transported in 1929 by his friend . . . — — Map (db m33292) HM
On this site
1876—1882
Thomas Alva Edison
Began his work
of service for the world
to illumine the path of progress
and
lighten labor for mankind.
This tablet is placed by the Edison Pioneers to attest the gratitude of the . . . — — Map (db m33259) HM
Farmhouse for Cutter plantation
Prominent Colonial family
Owned by Van Voorhees, Anderson
& Solowinski families
Farm use through 1950s
c1700 — — Map (db m202550) HM
Corielle St. firehouse 1912
King Georges Post Rd. firehouse 1967
Renovated 2006
Fords Fire Protection Bureau 1986
Fords Fire Rescue 1994
Est. 1911 — — Map (db m202551) HM
Trail crossroads first traveled by
Native Americans and European Settlers
Today known as Fords
Rendezvous spot for the Jersey Blues
Circa 1686 — — Map (db m202552) HM
The Helmetta Historical Society
Established 1994
Borough of Helmetta incorporated in 1888
George W. Helme Snuff Mill Historic District
Listed on State Register of Historic Places
February 1, 1980
Listed on the National Register of . . . — — Map (db m95750) HM
1920, to help his wife, Josephine, Highland Park resident Earle Dickson invented the BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages. Sponsored by the Highland Parks Arts Commission
Constructed by Lucky Jo Boscarino — 2019 — — Map (db m165720) HM
Uniontown, early Iselin label
Named for Church's Union Society
Green Street Union Chapel 1864
Church at current site 1923
Expanded 1954
1859 — — Map (db m208858) HM
Designated mission church of
St. Mary's 1915
First Church 1923
Parochial School 1951-2012
Church/School built 1953
Modern Church consecrated 1989
1914 — — Map (db m208856) HM
The bell shall not
toll but will remain
forever silent
in memory of those
from
Monroe Township
who
gave their lives
in the service of
their country — — Map (db m34159) HM
Plaque 1:
The Menlo Park Laboratory holds the unique distinction of being the location where sound was recorded and played back for the very first time. In July 1877, Thomas Alva Edison came up with the idea of recording and playing back . . . — — Map (db m162587) HM
Plaque 1:
1876-1882 Main Laboratory Building
In 1875, Thomas Edison was a young relatively unknown inventor with a shop and small laboratory in Newark, New Jersey. Seeking to move out of the crowded city, he asked his father, Samuel, to look . . . — — Map (db m162435) HM
Thomas Edison’s inspiration to perfect the electric railway arose when he stood in the fields of Wyoming in 1878. Gazing out over the vast fields waiting to be harvested, Edison realized that the transportation of the grain by steam engine would be . . . — — Map (db m162266) HM
The foundations are of Thomas Alva Edison’s office here at the Menlo Park laboratory complex. The building was completed in early 1879 along with a brick machine shop. This building contained Edison’s massive library and in the basement was a vault . . . — — Map (db m162716) HM
Close-knit, family-centered development
School opened 1958; now grades K-5
Heart of community
Home to local groups
Neighborhood playground 2013
1954 — — Map (db m208852) HM
Erected in 1889, the building served as Milltown School No. 78 until 1908 when the Milltown Public School was built on West Church Street. Once the move was made to the newer facility, this structure was used as the Milltown Municipal Building and . . . — — Map (db m95772) HM
The Charles Dey family acquired this 42 acre site on Old Church Road in 1927. Typical of farmsteads in this era, the house, which had been constructed in three stages beginning in 1820, was complemented by its red barns, shed and protective shade . . . — — Map (db m95998) HM
Welcome to the
Monroe Township Memorial Park
Sculpture Designed by Blaise Batko
The symbols used in the design of this site reflect the events
that touched all of our lives on September 11, 2001.
The nine black granite panels signify . . . — — Map (db m35607) HM
Planted June 2001
Honoring every veteran
who has served our nation
With respect and gratitude,
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 262
Monroe Township, New Jersey — — Map (db m35847) HM
A crucial step in the evolution of modern plant agriculture was the
development of low-cost, energy-efficient greenhouse structures that
provide optimum growing conditions year-round.
In 1964, Professor William J. Roberts developed . . . — — Map (db m195092) HM
Here Early December 1776 Alexander Hamilton (Graduate of King’s College) with his Battery of horse artillery covered the ford of the Raritan delaying the advance of the British across the river while Washington withdrew through Princeton to . . . — — Map (db m10010) HM
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey ---------- Alexander Johnston Hall 1830 ----------Alexander Johnston Hall, the second oldest building at Rutgers, was designed by Nicholas Wyckoff in 1830 to provide a home for the Rutgers Preparatory . . . — — Map (db m62727) HM
Congregation Anshe Emeth was founded October 11, 1859. It was the first incorporated Jewish congregation in Middlesex County, and the fourth in New Jersey. The congregation, which followed American Reform liturgical practices, built New Brunswick’s . . . — — Map (db m94036) HM
(Inscription on the grave marker is illigible)
(Bronze Tablet) In Memory of Brigadier General Anthony Walton White
An officer of the American Army of the Revolution. A member of General Washington’s staff. Washington, Lafayette, and Kosciuszko . . . — — Map (db m94019) WM
Built about 1735 and occupied until 1774 by Anthony White whose wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Morris, and whose son was General Anthony White.
Owned and occupied from 1774 by General William Burton of the British Army.
Owned by the . . . — — Map (db m8979) HM
Buccleuch Mansion was built circa 1735-1739 by Anthony White for his bride Elizabeth, daughter of New Jersey Royal Governor Lewis Morris. Their son, Anthony Walton White, who was born and raised here, was an aide-de-camp to George Washington and an . . . — — Map (db m242002) HM
Christ Church, founded in 1742, was entered onto the National Register of Historic Places in July 28, 1989. In 1776, the third public reading of the Declaration of Independence was made from the foot of the church tower. Funding for the Exterior . . . — — Map (db m94014) HM
Christ Church Parish was organized in 1742 through the efforts of the Society for the Propacation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts-Samuel Seabury First Bishop in America 1754 Rector 1757-Abraham Beach active in the organization of the Episcopal Church . . . — — Map (db m94018) HM
Gift of Class of 1924 in memory of Victor W. Simons, USNR August W. Lentz, Jr., USN Basil D. Gallagher, AUS died in World War II 1949 — — Map (db m62731) HM WM
Here in 1791, at what was then the end of George Street, stood College Hall, the second home of Queen’s College, now Rutgers University. The first home of the college with its grammar school, 1771-1791, was at the north-east corner of Albany and . . . — — Map (db m62694) HM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Daniel S. Schanck Observatory
1866
The Daniel S. Schanck Observatory, a two-story edifice which includes a revolving roof and a rear wing connected by a passageway, was . . . — — Map (db m10068) HM
Here on June 12 1947
The First Constitutional Convention to be held in New Jersey in one hundred three years was convened -
Here at Rutgers University – The State University of New Jersey eighty one Delegates, men and women elected by the . . . — — Map (db m168342) HM
Built in 1956, Frelinghuysen Hall is named for the Frelinghuysen family, including U.S. Senator Frederick Frelinghuysen (1753-1804), who enslaved Black people. He was a trustee and the first instructor at Queen's College (renamed Rutgers College). . . . — — Map (db m188172) HM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Geology Hall
1872
This brownstone structure was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, the great-great-grandson of Rutgers’ first president. The building served as home to . . . — — Map (db m10017) HM
History The stones here were excavated from George Street before the route 18 expansion in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
It was believed that when the Delaware and Raritan Canal constructed Lock #13 at New Brunswick, goods were transferred . . . — — Map (db m240420) HM
Built in 1873, Gray Terrace, the private residence of Robert Wood Johnson, stood on the corner of College Avenue and Hamilton Street. Brothers Robert Wood, James Wood, and Edward Mead Johnson founded Johnson & Johnson in 1886 in New Brunswick. . . . — — Map (db m208929) HM
Hardenbergh Hall was built in 1956 and named for Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, who profited from the enslavement of Black people. Hardenbergh was a founder of Queen's College (renamed Rutgers College) and appointed its first president. He was a Dutch . . . — — Map (db m185252) HM
The Henry Guest House is the second oldest structure in New Brunswick. In 1760, Alderman Henry Guest, a tanner, constructed this sturdy home of native stone near the bank of Lyell's Brook at what later became the corner of Livingston Avenue and New . . . — — Map (db m208907) HM
Robert Wood Johnson founded Johnson & Johnson with his two brothers, Edward Mead and James Wood in 1886. Launched as an innovative startup, they invented the world's first mass-produced sterile surgical supplies.
That same year James found a . . . — — Map (db m208913) HM
Kirkpatrick Chapel, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (great-great-grandson of the first president of Rutgers, also the architect of Geology Hall), was built as a chapel and library. The library was removed in 1903, thus increasing the . . . — — Map (db m10016) HM
Built in 1873 in the High Victorian Gothic Revival style, this chapel was designed by New Brunswick native, Henry J. Hardenbergh, the great-great-grandson of Rutgers' first president, Rev. Jacob Hardenbergh. Its vibrant glass windows are some of the . . . — — Map (db m208911) HM
Erected by the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Middlesex County
Michael Welsh Director
Geo H Blakeley Consulting Engineer
Penn Bridge Co
Builders Beaver Falls PA
Landing Lane Bridge is a three span, haunched deck girder structure. It . . . — — Map (db m109273) HM
To the memory of the men of Rutgers College
Who fought for the cause of independence in the American Revolution
This tablet is placed by the
New Jersey Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution
on the 150th anniversary
(November 10, . . . — — Map (db m10071) HM
In 1901, Edward B. Vorhees established here the country's first academic Department of Soil Chemistry and Bacteriology. Early studies by Jacob Lipman, Selman Waksman, Robert Starkey, and René Dubos explored microbial roles in the nitrogen cycle, . . . — — Map (db m99308) HM
Settlement begun about 1680 by Dutch and English received from George II city charter as New Brunswick in 1730. This highway was an Indian trail to the falls of the Delaware and the Minisink Trail to Navesink crossed it here. It became the Great . . . — — Map (db m62691) HM
New Brunswick and the American Revolution
General George Washington and his Continental Army troops arrived at New Brunswick on November 29, 1776 during a retreat across New Jersey that had begun at Fort Lee nine days earlier. Washington . . . — — Map (db m208921) HM
Erected by the people of New Brunswick in memory of the brave soldiers and sailors who fought in the defence of the Union during the War of the Rebellion Williamsburg • Antietam • Fredericksburg • New Bern • Atlanta • Gettysburg • Winchester • . . . — — Map (db m62714) WM
In 1902, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie offered the City of New Brunswick $50,000 for a new library building. The next year, in November 1903, the building opened to the public. George K. Parsells was the architect who designed and . . . — — Map (db m208910) HM
Under the rooftree of the Inn which occupied this site General Washington tarried when in New Brunswick ----- On the adjoining square upon the arrival of the express rider the Declaration of Independence was acclaimed by all loyal citizens on July . . . — — Map (db m8954) HM
The city of New Brunswick, N.J. erects this memorial to her three sons who perished on the U.S.S. Maine February 15, 1898 in Havana Harbor, Cuba --------------- Frederick Lawrence Jernee William Henry Robinson John Henry Ziegler Back of . . . — — Map (db m15768) HM
Date 1903
William H. Brown, Engineer
The New Jersey Railroad, chartered in 1832, was completed between Jersey City and New Brunswick in 1835. On January 2, 1836, the first train, a new locomotive named "The New Brunswick" traveled down from . . . — — Map (db m95769) HM
On this high ground the 7th Regiment of the British Army had its camp and a redoubt while General Howe and his troops occupied New Brunswick December 1, 1776 to June 22, 1777. At the edge of the hill above the river a battery of the American Army . . . — — Map (db m41468) HM
Paul Robeson was one of the 20th century's greatest voices and trailblazing human rights and peace activist. The son of The Rev. William Drew Robeson, who escaped from slavery at the age of 15, and Maria Louisa Bustill, a free Black educator of . . . — — Map (db m168734) HM
Honoring Middlesex County recipients of “The Purple Heart” our nation’s oldest military medal My stone is red for the blood they shed. The medal I bear is my country’s way to show they care. If I could be seen by all mankind maybe peace will . . . — — Map (db m62736) WM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Queen’s Campus
1809
Queen’s College (now Rutgers University) opened for instruction in 1771 in a tavern known as “the Sign of the Red Lion” on the corner of . . . — — Map (db m10013) HM
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Queen’s Campus
1809
Queen’s College (now Rutgers University) opened for instruction in 1771 in a tavern known as “the Sign of the Red Lion” on the corner of . . . — — Map (db m10040) HM
[Upper Right Hand Marker]:
“Expediens est seminaria verae
sophiae ericere”
XXX MAI MDCCLV
Queen’s College
Founded by Royal Charter 10, Nov. 1766
Fixed its third site by the erection of this . . . — — Map (db m10069) HM
“ Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty ” --------------- Marking the route taken by Washington from Philadelphia to Cambridge to assume command of the Patriot Army in 1775 --------------- Placed here by The New Jersey . . . — — Map (db m62692) HM
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey --------------- In memory of the men and women of Rutgers who were innocent victims of the terrorist attacks September 11,2001
Paul A. Acquavina RC ’94 • Evan J. Baron NCAS ’81 • David O. Campbell . . . — — Map (db m62733) HM
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