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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
RED BANK, 15.1 miles (35 alt., 11,622 pop.), owes its importance largely
to its site on Navesink River, and its name to the river's clay banks. The
town is brisk and up-to-date, with a narrow, treeless main street. Well-kept residences are set back from shaded side streets. For more than 50
years the river has been the ice-boating center of the New York area. In
summer the town is the shopping center for outlying estates.
The largest factory is the SIGMUND EISNER CLOTHING PLANT, which
specializes in Boy Scout and military uniforms. Gold beating is a small
local industry, employing a few workers in shops at 31 Linden Pl., 139
Spring St., and 147 South St. The founder of the industry here was William Haddon, who 6o years ago taught his trade to two apprentices, one
of whom passed it on to the present shop-owners. Here an ounce of gold
is hammered by hand between successive layers of parchment into 2,500
sheets, 33/8 inches square and 1/200,000 of an inch thick.
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