Potters, New Jersey

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Potters, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
Potters, New Jersey is located in Middlesex County, New Jersey
Potters, New Jersey
Potters, New Jersey
Location of Potters in Middlesex County Inset: Location of county within the state of New Jersey
Coordinates: 40°35′37″N 74°21′41″W / 40.59361°N 74.36139°W / 40.59361; -74.36139Coordinates: 40°35′37″N 74°21′41″W / 40.59361°N 74.36139°W / 40.59361; -74.36139
Country United States
State New Jersey
CountyMiddlesex
TownshipEdison
Elevation
[1]
92 ft (28 m)
GNIS feature ID884389[1]

Potters was an unincorporated community and now is neighborhood located within Edison Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.[2][3][4]

In the northern part of the township,[5] Potters was once known as Potters Crossing, and may been an African-American community as early as the 1800s.[6] Centered around Inman Avenue and Grove Avenue,[7] it is believed that seven upper-middle-class families moved to the village from Harlem in 1917. The community grew in the 1920s, with families from the South. By the 1940s, it had more than 1,500 residents and included three churches and a volunteer fire department.[8]

As early as 1955, Edison was pushing for a federal housing project to eliminate the slum areas of Potters.[9] The community was dispersed during an urban renewal projects in the 1960s and 1970s.[6][10] It was largely and replaced by the James D. Elder Park and two low-income housing development projects: Greenwood Townhouses and Colonial Square Townhouses.[11][12] The Mount Pleasant Baptist Church was relocated in 1978.[13]

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Potters". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 13, 2015.
  3. ^ "NJDOT Graphic Information System Maps Middlesex" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  4. ^ Spies, Stacy (2001), Edison, Arcadia Publishing
  5. ^ Fleming, Herbert R. (1947). "Map of Middlesex County, New Jersey". Middlesex County (NJ). Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Murray, Stuart (April 11, 1976). "Housing Scar in Edison". New York Times. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  7. ^ "Potters Crossing Historic Village District" (PDF). Metuchen-dison Historical Society. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  8. ^ Hatala, Greg (February 17, 2014). "Glimpse of History: Looking for a better life in Edison". NJ Advance Media. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  9. ^ "The Central New Jersey Home News from New Brunswick, New Jersey on February 23, 1955 · 2". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  10. ^ Potter Urban Renewal Project, United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1975
  11. ^ "Courier-Post from Camden, New Jersey on April 4, 1975 · Page 75". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  12. ^ "The Central New Jersey Home News from New Brunswick, New Jersey on December 29, 1982 · 22". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  13. ^ http://www.mpbcedison.com/WhoWeAre.html


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