First movement by steam on a railroad in New Jersey
First movement by steam on a railroad in the state of New Jersey, November 12, 1831, by the original locomotive "John Bull" now deposited in the United States National Museum at Washington. The first piece of railroad track in New Jersey was laid by the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company between this point and the stone, thirty five hundred feet eastward in 1831.
Marker is at the intersection of Farnsworth Avenue and Railroad Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Farnsworth Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
