Middlesex Sampling Plant, Garage, 239 Mountain Avenue, Middlesex, Middlesex County, NJ

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Middlesex Sampling Plant, 239 Mountain Avenue, Middlesex, Middlesex County, NJ

Significance: This six-car garage was part of the Middlesex Sampling Plant used between 1943-67 for sampling uranium, beryllium, and thorium for the Manhattan Engineer District/Atomic Energy Commission for use in the development of atomic weapons. This work was part of a top-secret nationwide fabricating effort during World War II to develop an atom bomb, and post-war, to create atomic weapons as part of President Harry S Truman's Cold War policy of military supremacy over the Soviet Union.

Survey number: HAER NJ-107-D

Building/structure dates: 1950 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1969 Subsequent Work

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1969 - 1980

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Alfson, Mary, transmitter

Hellawell, Dennis L, photographer

Cole, Alexandra C, historian

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