Watermen and Working Harbor

More than a dozen oyster houses ringed the waterfront by the 1870s, some built out into the harbor on pilings. Throughout the winter, local watermen harvested shellfish from the Bay and sold their catch to the packing houses. Shuckers, many ...

Desert Power & Water Co.

1907-1911

Among largest steam generating

plants of its time on

Pacific Coast

National Register of Historic Places

Marker can be reached from Andy Devine Avenue (Business Interstate 40).

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Schaefferstown Water Company

One of North America's oldest documented public water systems. Alexander Schaeffer built a hotel on the square in 1744, and construction of the water system began here shortly after. On July 16, 1763, he and his wife Anna Engle deeded ...

Cold Water Falls

World's Largest Man-Made Natural Stone Waterfall

to be known in existence

80 feet wide, 48 feet tall

1,780 tons of Colbert County Sandstone

4,320,000 gallons of water per day passes over falls

Largest stone weights 77,000 pounds

Marker is on S. Main Street.

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Edgewater World War I Monument

* Farrell J.P. • * Murphy M. • * Regan W. • * Weir G.H. • Zaikowski A. • Allen Jack • Adams H. • Aarons S.M. • Burns Leroy • Bernhardt W. • Buckley Leo • Bobat S. ...

Edgewater Vietnam Veterans Monument

Lest We Forget

This Memorial

Is Dedicated To

The Residents

Of The Borough

Of Edgewater

Who Served

In Defense Of

Our Country

During The

Period Of The

Southeast

Asian Conflict

May 28, 1973

In Memory Of

Edward Breen • Timothy Daly • Kevin Kennedy • ...

Edgewater Veterans Memorial

For Whom The Bell Tolls

This Bell is Dedicated to All

Veterans of Edgewater

Who Served Their Country

Honorably in Time Of

War & Peace

1983

Marker can be reached from River Road near Glenwood Avenue, on the left when traveling south.

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Edgewater World War II Memorial

In Memory of the Men Of

Edgewater, N.J.

Who Gave Their Lives

For Their Country

In World War II

Paul O. Allen • William E. Barber • William J. Conway • John J. Delaney • John F. Eager • Robert M. English • Benjamin L. ...

Water Tunnels

Tunnels increased power. Here water from the inner basin, located off to your right, flowed through a series of underground passages. With openings smaller at the downstream end - like a nozzle on a garden hose - these tunnels increased ...

Watertown

The local Paugasuck Indians sold this area of land to Thomas Judd and thirty-five other proprietors in 1684. The First Ecclesiastical Society of Westbury was formed in 1738 and in 1780 Westbury separated from Waterbury, was named Watertown, and soon ...