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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
ROSELLE PARK, 3.9 miles (30 alt., 8,969 pop.), is largely a commuters'
town. At its western end are (L) two BROADCASTING TOWERS used by the
General Electric Co. for experiments. They were built in 1916 for testing
the Marconi wireless telegraph instruments, made in a factory nearby.
Industrial products of the borough are American oriental rugs, iron, and
cement.
Left from Roselle Park on Locust St. is ROSELLE, 0.2 miles (70 alt., 13,021 pop.).
Roselle also has a large commuting population and a few industrial plants. Its
main highway, Chestnut St., is bordered by tall trees and modern homes. Opposition and rivalry have for years prevented a close link between the two communities. Thomas Edison for a time had a LABORATORY here in which he installed the
first electric lighting plant in the world. Part of the building that housed the plant,
Locust St. and First Ave., is still standing. It is a brown, one-story, T-shaped structure, with a low-pitched, tar-paper roof. The building is now an office for a lumber
company. The PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Chestnut and Fifth Sts., has in its chapel
the first electric chandelier that Edison made. Roselle was the first community in
the world to have its streets lighted by incandescent bulbs. The SITE OF THE
B1RTHPLACE OF ABRAHAM CLARK (1725-1794), one of the New Jersey signers of
the Declaration of Independence, is indicated by a stone marker on Chestnut St.
R). The bathysphere used by Dr. William Beebe in his record descent into the
ocean was built in Roselle at the plant of the Watson-Stillman Co.
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