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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
BROADWAY, 54.5 miles (350 alt., 150 pop.), is so called because of its
wide main street which bears not the least resemblance to the parent thoroughfare of Manhattan. Broadway was at one time owned by the enterprising Col. William McCullough, who founded Washington, N. J., and had
a good deal to do with the development of Asbury. Its most famous citizen
was Peggy Warne, sister of Gen. Garret Vliet, who left her 10 children
at home and served the Revolution by doctoring the local sick 50
years before Florence Nightingale was born. Mrs. Warne was not a physician, but she was a skilled obstetrician and practical nurse. While the
few physicians in the county were away from home she rode all over the
countryside, medicine in her saddlebags, to care for ailing citizens and convalescent soldiers.
Smokestacks draw attention at 56.2 m. (L) to the EDISON PORTLAND CEMENT PLANT founded in 1901 by Thomas Alva Edison. Prodigious crushers, invented by Edison and nowhere else in use, make little
ones out of 10-ton rocks quarried at the plant. Five miles of track join the
51 plant units and 3 1/2, miles of conveyor belt are used to turn out 2,500,000 barrels of cement annually. Dust from the plant often blankets the
countryside for miles.
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