Rose City

Rose City is a New Jersey historical marker in Morris County, dedicated 1963.

Marker is on Madison Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

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Rose culture in this area began in 1856. Largest greenhouse "range" built in 1880. Madison became known as "The Rose City"

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1856 · New Jersey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Morris Co., N.J. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Bergen, Passaic Cos., N.J. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1873 · Map of The State of New Jersey (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
1888 · Morristown, New Jersey (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

New Jersey, 1856, covering the location of Rose City, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — New Jersey, 1856, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Rose City

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