Nixon, New Jersey
Populated place in Middlesex County, New Jersey, US
Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States
40°30′51″N 74°22′03″W / 40.51417°N 74.36750°W / 40.51417; -74.36750
United States
New JerseyNixon is an unincorporated community located within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[2][3] It was named after Lewis Nixon, a manufacturer and community leader. Soon after the outbreak of World War I, Nixon established a massive volatile chemicals processing facility there, known as the Nixon Nitration Works. It was the site of the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster, a massive explosion and resulting fire that killed 20 persons and destroyed several square miles around the plant.[4]
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References
- ^ a b "Nixon". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 11, 2015.
- ^ Spies, Stacy (2001), Edison, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 9780738505497
- ^ Staff. "FERTILIZER PLANT BLOWS UP; Theory Is That TNT, Accidentally Left in Shells, Caused Blast.", The New York Times, March 2, 1924. Accessed March 20, 2012. "At least twenty persons were killed yesterday in an explosion of a two-story tile and brick fertilizer building of Ammonite Company at Nixon, N.J., six miles northeast of New Brunswick. A dozen others were unaccounted for last night and were listed as missing."
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- Edison Township Public Schools
- Edison High School
- J. P. Stevens High School
- Huaxia Edison Chinese School
- Middlesex County Magnet Schools
- Middlesex County Academy
- Middlesex County College
- Wardlaw-Hartridge School
- Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva
- Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Edison branch
- St. Thomas Aquinas High School
- BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir
- Dismal Swamp
- Edison State Park
- Exxxotica Expo
- Middlesex Greenway
- Oak Ridge Park
- Plainfield Country Club
- Plays-in-the-Park
- Roosevelt Park
- Rutgers Ecological Preserve
- Bare Necessities
- Crazy Eddie
- Gund
- Hackensack Meridian Health
- FedEx Ground
- Kam Man Food
- JFK Medical Center
- Menlo Park Mall
- News 12 New Jersey
- Oak Tree Road
- OrbitBeyond
- Raritan Center
- Zylog Systems
- Edison station
- Metropark
- Metuchen station
- NJT 800 buses
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