Nail Works

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

Entrance to City Park in front of this white frame building · location approximate

Directions to the area ↗Start a road trip Historical trails

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

TodayHistorical map

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1796 · Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1814 · Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1818 · New Jersey (1818) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1823 · Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1825 · Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Delaware, 1814, covering the location of Nail Works, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Delaware, 1814, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

Example

For example, one family's tree showed the Articles of Confederation marker in Pennsylvania standing under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s.

What that marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years there.

From one family's 77-marker roster

Upload your family tree and TreeAlive finds the markers near where your own ancestors lived.

See your family's markers

Start with a tree file, a FamilySearch sign in, or a WikiTree ID.

Report a problem with this page

The marker isn't at this spotOur pin may be off. If you know where it stands, tell us.I couldn't find the markerWe record what the source recorded. We have not been to look.The sign reads differentlyThat would be an error, and we can pass it to the program.The historical map looks wrongThe period map behind the pin, not the marker itself.Something else

We may pass what you report to the state's marker program. Please don't include personal details.

Marker data: New Jersey Historical Commission

More markers nearby

New Jersey Libertyunder 1 mi
The Seeley Houseunder 1 mi
"Liberty Bell"under 1 mi
Broad St. Churchunder 1 mi