Long a major producer of lubricating grease for industry, transportation, and the military. In WWII, supplied 5,000,000 pounds of “Eisenhower grease,” vital to the war effort. Founded here, 1885, by Grant McCargo. After 1929, part of Standard Oil (NJ); operated until 1999.

Marker is on Smallman Street 0.1 miles east of 33rd Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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