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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
State 2 turns L. at the entrance to LYNDHURST, 21.8 miles (60 alt.,
17,362 pop.), an industrial town with a commuting population. Houses of
monotonous uniformity are closely packed behind pocket handkerchief
lawns. This section, first called New Barbadoes Neck by an early settler from Barbados, changed its name in honor of Lord Lyndhurst, a frequent
visitor.
William R. Travers, wealthy New Yorker, built many of Lyndhurst's
houses near the Passaic about 1880. He had a summer home and a race
track here where August Belmont, banker and sportsman, "Boss" Tweed,
the Tammany politician, and others were frequent visitors.
Right (straight ahead) from the entrance to Lyndhurst on Rutherford Ave. to
the junction with Oak St., 1.3 m.; R. on Oak St., to the GIVAUDAN-DELAWANNA
PLANT, 1.6 miles (open by appointment), the largest producer of synthetic aromatic
compounds in the United States. In a dozen two-story cement buildings aromatics for
odorizing perfumes, cosmetics, and toilet preparations are manufactured. Other compounds are used as deodorants in various products such as synthetic textiles and
some rubber products, where natural odors are objectionable. Raw materials for the
aromatics come from all over the world: civet from a gland of the civet-cat of Ethiopia, ambergris from the alimentary canal of the tropical sperm whale, musk from
a pouch in the abdomen of the male musk-deer of central Asia, herbs, roots, resins,
and grasses from lands ranging from Singapore to South America.
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