Nail Works
Inscription
Cumberland Nail and Iron Company, makers of mails and pipe, where here from 1815 to the 1890s. Land became a city park, 1901.
Location
AddressEntrance to City Park in front of this white frame building
CountyCumberland
StateNew Jersey
Coordinates40.941840, -73.961650
Sources
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