Edison, NJ is a township rich in both history and innovation. It was first settled in the late 1600’s, but archaeological findings have dated life in the area all the way back to the Stone age.
As the township and the area evolved, one of the earliest public roads in NJ, Old Post Road, passed through Edison and represented important transit. It is even said that President George Washington used it on his way to his inauguration in NYC in 1789.
Thomas Alva Edison was known as the “Wizard of Menlo Park”. It is said he placed his lab or ‘invention factory’ at the Menlo Park site because it was the highest point along the Pennsylvania Railroad between New York and Philadelphia. Edison’s lab brought great attention to the township as the source for the most innovative research and manufacturing feats in world history.
Visit the Thomas Edison Center & Edison Memorial Tower at Menlo Park for an enlightening and historical afternoon.