Editing Edison, New Jersey (section)

==Notable places==
* Advian, which in 2012 featured what was then the nation's largest solar rooftop installation at {{convert|17|acres}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pv-tech.org/avidan_management_unveils_uss_largest_solar_rooftop_system/|title=Avidan Management unveils US's largest solar rooftop system|date=April 20, 2011|access-date=March 22, 2021|archive-date=October 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028180833/https://www.pv-tech.org/avidan_management_unveils_uss_largest_solar_rooftop_system/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Bonhamtown, New Jersey|Bonhamtown]], site of a battle during the [[American Revolutionary War]]<ref name=Birth>Chang, Kathy; and Kesten, Karen L. [https://www1.gmnews.com/2009/12/30/birth-of-a-town-3/ "Birth of a town"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922044913/https://www1.gmnews.com/2009/12/30/birth-of-a-town-3/ |date=September 22, 2023 }} ''Edison Sentinel'', December 30, 2009. Accessed September 17, 2017. "The Bonhamtown section of Edison was named after Nicholas Bonham, a freeholder from 1682 to 1683. In his book ''Welcome to Edison – An Enlightening Community'', David C. Sheehan writes that Bonhamtown at the time was 'a hamlet town [of few homes], which is said to have been the site of an old Indian Village and later a Continental Army camp and battleground during the Revolution.{{'"}}</ref>
* [[Camp Kilmer]], a [[World War II]] era army post, was partially located in what is now Edison.<ref>[https://www.archives.gov/northeast/nyc/exhibits/camp-kilmer/ Camp Kilmer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926062705/http://www.archives.gov/northeast/nyc/exhibits/camp-kilmer/ |date=September 26, 2012 }}, National Archives at New York City. Accessed March 22, 2012. "Toward the end of 1941, with the threat of war imminent, the War Department chose a site between Edison and Piscataway, New Jersey as a staging area for troops."</ref>
* [[Dismal Swamp (New Jersey)|Dismal Swamp]], preserved wetlands area that also includes portions of [[Metuchen, New Jersey|Metuchen]] and [[South Plainfield, New Jersey|South Plainfield]].<ref>[http://newjersey.sierraclub.org/raritanvalley/dismal_swamp/index.asp Dismal Swamp] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601075055/http://newjersey.sierraclub.org/RaritanValley/dismal_swamp/index.asp |date=June 1, 2012 }}, [[Sierra Club]]. Accessed March 22, 2012. "The Dismal Swamp (located in Edison, Metuchen, and South Plainfield) is 660 acres and is designated a 'priority wetland' by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service."</ref>
* Durham Woods, a complex of several apartment buildings and scene of the [[Edison, New Jersey natural gas explosion]] in 1994, in which a 36-inch natural gas pipeline burst and exploded, destroying buildings in the area.<ref>[[Robert D. McFadden|McFadden, Robert D.]] [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/25/nyregion/explosion-edison-overview-new-jersey-pipeline-explosion-sets-off-panic-chaos.html "Explosion In Edison: The Overview; New Jersey Pipeline Explosion Sets Off Panic, Chaos and Fear"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922044911/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/25/nyregion/explosion-edison-overview-new-jersey-pipeline-explosion-sets-off-panic-chaos.html |date=September 22, 2023 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 25, 1994. Accessed March 22, 2012. "About 100 people suffered burns or were felled by smoke, 2,000 residents of Edison and nearby Metuchen were evacuated and about 300 lost their homes and all their possessions in the blast of undetermined origin. It occurred just before midnight Wednesday in a buried, 36-inch pipeline that supplies natural gas from Texas to much of New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area."</ref>
* Edison Landfill, landfill site undergoing environmental cleanup since it was ordered closed in 1977.<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/28/archives/state-orders-edison-landfill-shut.html "State Orders Edison Landfill Shut"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105160453/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/28/archives/state-orders-edison-landfill-shut.html |date=November 5, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 28, 1977. Accessed November 4, 2018. "The State Department of Environmental Protection ordered today that Kin-Buc Inc. in Edison Township stop accepting solid waste and close its land-fill operation within 30 days."</ref>
* [[Edison station]] in South Edison, offering service on [[NJ Transit]]'s [[Northeast Corridor Line]].<ref>[http://www.njtransit.com/rg/rg_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=TrainStationLookupFrom&selStation=38&x=34&y=19 Edison station] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712091248/http://www.njtransit.com/rg/rg_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=TrainStationLookupFrom&selStation=38&x=34&y=19 |date=July 12, 2014 }}, [[NJ Transit]]. Accessed March 22, 2012.</ref>
* ILR Landfill, closed landfill site owned by Industrial Land Reclaiming (ILR) providing power to Middlesex County's wastewater treatment operations from methane gas recovery.<ref>Caiazza, Tom. [https://www1.gmnews.com/2007/03/07/dep-finds-hazardous-materials-in-ilr-landfill/ "DEP finds hazardous materials in ILR landfill: Contaminants were found on site of proposed 500K-sq.-ft. warehouse"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922044913/https://www1.gmnews.com/2007/03/07/dep-finds-hazardous-materials-in-ilr-landfill/ |date=September 22, 2023 }}, ''Edison Sentinel'', March 7, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2017. "The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a pair of violations to Industrial Land Reclaiming Inc., owners of the landfill of the same name, for hazardous waste that was found in the soil outside of the landfill wall."</ref>
* [[Kin-Buc Landfill]], former [[landfill]] and [[Superfund site]] where {{convert|70|e6USgal|m3}} of hazardous waste was dumped.<ref>[https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0200346 Superfund Site: Kin-Buc Landfill; Edison Township, NJ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405180342/https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0200346 |date=April 5, 2023 }}, [[Environmental Protection Agency]]. Accessed September 17, 2017. The Kin-Buc Landfill Superfund Site is located in Edison Township, New Jersey. The 220-acre Site is composed of an inactive landfill that operated from the late 1940s to 1976. From 1971 to 1976, the Site was a State-approved landfill for industrial and municipal wastes, both solid and liquid. The Site accepted hazardous waste during this period, until the State revoked its permit in 1976 due to the violation of several environmental statutes."</ref>
* [[Laing House of Plainfield Plantation]], historic home built in the early 1700s when the region was being settled by Scottish Quakers in the late 17th and early 18th century.<ref>Dudley, William L. [http://www.plainfieldquakers.org/history/dudley.asp '' The Story of the Friends in PlainfieldIncludingA History of Early Quaker Families''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715155319/http://www.plainfieldquakers.org/history/dudley.asp |date=July 15, 2012 }}, Rahway & Plainfield Friends (Quaker) Meeting, March 29, 1929. Accessed March 24, 2015. "The Laing family composed a prominent part of the first permanent settlers in this neighborhood. John Laing, the progenitor of this long line in East Jersey, came over from Craigforth, Aberdeen County, Scotland, August 1685, landing in Amboy, near which place for a few years he lived with his wife Margaret and his children, John, Abraham, William, Christiana and Isabel. In 1698 he moved to 'the Plains' near where South Plainfield now is. His son John married, in 1708, Elizabeth Shotwell, a direct descendent of the original Abraham Shotwell. His daughter Isabel, in 1700, married Joseph Fitz Randolph, son of Nathaniel."</ref>
* [[Roosevelt Park (Edison, New Jersey)|Roosevelt Park]], a 196-acre park next to Menlo Park Mall.
* [[Menlo Park Mall]], located at the intersection of Route 1 and Parsonage Road, has a [[gross leasable area]] of {{convert|1260703|sqft}}.<ref>[http://www.mallsandoutlets.com/malls/menlo-park-edison-nj-mall/ Menlo Park Mall] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319204304/http://www.mallsandoutlets.com/malls/menlo-park-edison-nj-mall/ |date=March 19, 2014 }}, Malls and Outlets. Accessed October 9, 2013.</ref>
* [[Little India (Edison/Iselin)|Oak Tree Road]] in Edison and the [[Iselin, New Jersey|Iselin]] section of [[Woodbridge Township, New Jersey|Woodbridge Township]] is known for its large concentration of Indian stores and restaurants.
* The [[Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum]], in Menlo Park, dedicated in 1938. Located in [[Edison State Park]], at the site where its namesake inventor invented the [[incandescent light bulb]] and the [[phonograph]].<ref>[http://www.menloparkmuseum.org/about-us About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415122112/http://www.menloparkmuseum.org/about-us |date=April 15, 2012 }}, [[Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum]]. Accessed March 22, 2012.</ref>
* Tastee Sub Shop is a popular sandwich establishment off of Route 27 Lincoln Highway in South Edison that President [[Barack Obama]] visited in 2010 as part of a small business campaign.<ref>Friedman, Matt. [https://www.nj.com/news/2010/07/president_obama_greets_tastee.html "President Obama meets small business owners at Edison Tastee Sub Shop"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], July 28, 2010. Accessed February 7, 2024.</ref>