Moving from Phillipsburg, Stephen Phillips and Jonathan Betz built a three acre yard for building of steamboats and barges in 1832, on land bought from Abner Lacock. The firm changed ownership many times in the next forty years. 138 boats and barges built here.

Marker is on 3rd Avenue 0 miles south of 9th Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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