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208. ISBN. 1-57322-606-8. Drown is the semi-autobiographical, debut short story collection from Dominican-American author Junot Díaz that address the trials of Dominican immigrants as they attempt to find some semblance of the American Dream after immigrating to America. The stories are set in the context of 1980s America, and are narrated by ...
J.P. Stevens was the 80th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 65th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed, while Edison High School was ranked 174 in 2012 and 169 in 2010. [186]
Metuchen lies at the geographic center of Edison. Edison, New Jersey is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey in central New Jersey. The township was originally founded as the settlement of Piscatawaytown, a small neighborhood that still exists within it, [1] [2] [3] and incorporated as Raritan Township on March 17, 1870. [4]
Iselin (/ ˈ ɪ z ˈ l ɪ n / [9]) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [10] located within Woodbridge Township, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] As of the 2020 United States census , Iselin's population was 20,088, [ 3 ] up from 18,695 in 2010 .
Raritan Township was renamed Edison Township in 1954. [9] Bonhamton was the site of a battle during the Forage Wars during the American Revolutionary War. Bonhamtown is surrounded by several major roads, which include: Interstate 287, the New Jersey Turnpike, U.S. Route 1, Route 27, and Route 440.
To the west it is bordered by Edison Township. The New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) crosses the middle of Fords from west to east, while the Garden State Parkway forms much of the eastern border of the community. Most of the interchange connecting the two highways is in the neighboring Woodbridge CDP to the east.
141 ft (43 m) GNIS feature ID. 878259 [1] Menlo Park is an unincorporated community within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [2][3] In 1876, Thomas Edison set up his home and research laboratory in Menlo Park, at the time an unsuccessful real estate development named after the town of Menlo Park, California. [4]
Designated NHP. September 5, 1962 (as NHS, redesignated NHP March 30, 2009) Thomas Edison National Historical Park preserves Thomas Edison 's laboratory and residence, Glenmont, in West Orange, New Jersey, United States. These were designed, in 1887, by architect Henry Hudson Holly. [3] The Edison laboratories operated for more than 40 years.