The Metuchen-Edison Historical Society

The Metuchen-Edison Archives contains thousands of items.  Our on-line archive contiues to grow.  Click on the item number to take a look at the file.

Item #                               Title                                                       Date Posted

001                    Metuchen Historic Marker                                           3/2010

002                    Grimstead's History of Metuchen 1939                         3/2010

003                    Veteran's Buried in Metuchen 1930                              3/2010

004                   History of the Telephone in Metuchen                            3/2010

005                   How the Clara Barton School got it's Name                    3/2010 

006                   Piscatawaytown Burial Ground                                     3/2010

007                   Hoopar Brother's Headstone                                         3/2010

008                   General Thomas Swords                                              3/2010

009                   Metuching 1799 map                                                   3/2010

010                   1799 Map                                                                   3/2010

011                   How Menlo Park Derived it's Name                               3/2010

012                   African Americans and the Klan in the 1920s Metuchen 3/2010

013                   How to Pronounce Metuchen                                       3/2010

014                   Why is a High School Named for John P. Stevens Jr.    3/2010

015                   John Basilone Bridge NJ Turnpike, between Edison,      3/2010

                        and East Brunswick NJ.  1950s.

016                   List of Oral History Tapes                                           3/2010 

017                   Rutgers Oral History Project.  Transcripts of Edison

                        and Metuchen residents.  Lewis Bloom, Richard Hale,

                        Lloyd Kornbaltt, David Robinson, Roland Winter.          3/2010

018                  Information about Ezra Ayres Carmen,

                       Civil War General, buried at Arlington Cemetery.           3/2010

019                 Mark Polansky.  Plaque in Polansky Park                    4/2010

020                 Stanhope Wood Nixon grave in Piscatawaytown.

                      Burial Ground.  Son of Lewis Nixon.                              4/2010

021                 St. James Church 2009.                                              4/2010

022                 Henry James Memorial at Stevens High School            5/2010

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