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Edison is a township located in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Situated in Central New Jersey within the core of the state's Raritan Valley region, Edison is a commercial hub (home to Menlo Park Mall and Little India) and is a bedroom community of New York City within the New York metropolitan area.
The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, also known as the Menlo Park Museum / Edison Memorial Tower, is a memorial to inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison, located in the Menlo Park area of Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The tower was dedicated on February 11, 1938, on what would have been the inventor's 91st birthday.
On September 5, 1962, the 21-acre (85,000 m 2) site containing the home and the laboratory were designated the Edison National Historic Site. [2] On March 30, 2009, it was renamed Thomas Edison National Historical Park, adding "Thomas" to the title in hopes to relieve confusion between the Edison sites in West Orange and Edison, New Jersey ...
The tower was closed in 1992 after slabs of concrete started falling from the 54-year-old freestanding structure. After it was put on the list of New Jersey's most endangered historic sites in 1997, the Edison Township Memorial Corporation started a $3.87 million renovation. On October 24, 2015, the end of the restoration was marked by a ...
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
Piscatawaytown is the oldest neighborhood in Edison in Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was established in the 1660s as the original village in what was then within Piscataway . Piscatawaytown is centered around St. James Church, the Piscatawaytown Burial Ground and the Piscatawaytown Common, near the intersection of Plainfield and Woodbridge ...
In a town packed with historic homes, 45 Park Way may be West Orange's most extraordinary. Deemed the township's most historic building by members of its historic commission in recent decades, the ...
Metuchen lies at the geographic center of Edison. Edison, New Jersey is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey in central New Jersey.The township was originally founded as the settlement of Piscatawaytown, a small neighborhood that still exists within it, [1] [2] [3] and incorporated as Raritan Township on March 17, 1870.