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Ford Plant

Ford Plant is a New Jersey historical marker in Kearny, Hudson County, dedicated 1965.

In front of Western Electric Company, Kearny, NJ · location approximate

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In 1918 the first Ford Assembly Plant in New Jersey was founded here. Removed to Edgewater in 1930 and later to Mahwah.

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library

Historical maps covering this location

1887 · City Of New York (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Newark-Paterson. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · New York City and vicinity / H.M. Wilson, geographer in charge ; triangulation by U.S… (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1901 · Greater New York (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1910 · [Freight terminal map of the port of New York.] (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)

Newark-Paterson, 1891, covering the location of Ford Plant, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Newark-Paterson, 1891, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Ford Plant

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