Nail Works

Nail Works is a New Jersey historical marker in Cumberland County, dedicated 1963.

Cumberland County · dedicated 1963 · Entrance to City Park in front of this white frame building · location approximate

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Cumberland Nail and Iron Company, makers of mails and pipe, where here from 1815 to the 1890s. Land became a city park, 1901.

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Marker data: New Jersey Historical Commission

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