A Blog about the Chambersburg area of Trenton NJ. The Burg we all loved and miss. If you were from the Burg I hope many of the pictures and lists and comments under them from good folks bring back some nice memories. Villa Park, Franklin Park, South Trenton, and nearby Hamilton also mentioned. Use the search box atop the blog to find schools,churches,streets,stores,bars etc that you remember. Over 4000 posts and 3000 pics. Enjoy:)
A little dark shop with the old cobbler hunched over his work..took many of my shoes there to get "clets" put on them. When this shop closed we used tony's in the 700 block of Beatty...he was Italian.
This place was just down the street from my great grandfather's house which was 48 Hancock St.
Was the Columbian Carbon Mapico pigment plant across the street? During Summer nights, there was this bang, bang, bang all night long when they roasted the iron oxides.
Tindiks was around the corner on Jersey St. I had a great uncle that lived up there as well in the early 1900s.
Anonymous....I think the plant was on Woolverton St..just around the corner from Hancock. Maybe Mack can search-up the info on the plant. I do remember the banging..even up on Beatty where I lived. Tindiks was on Home Ave where Jersey comes into it.
I cannot find pics of The Columbian Carbon Co. But its official address in the 1950s was 601 Cass Street..yes thats at Woolverton but Hancock right there a block away. Maybe it was between them. I see it also in a few Trenton Obits as the place folks worked. It is called the "Mapico Color Division" in my records. This is interesting:)
The Mapico plant was on Woolverton St., just a block over. Thank you!
Trucks came in every day or so with coperas (a light-green iron sulphate) which I think was a waste product of National Lead's Titanium Pigment plant in South Amboy. The sulphate was roasted to make Mapico -- a MAgnetic PIgment or mixed iron oxide.
The entire neighborhood had a red tinge from the dust.
Mack, thanks for this website! I get a kick out of it, for sure.
I had a girl friend who lived on Third St and I walked past the factory many times...I also remember the "red" dust on the outside of the building. When I left Trenton in '79 the State was putting offices in the abandoned buildings...along with a McDonalds right before where the tracks where (rt 29 now??)
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A little dark shop with the old cobbler hunched over his work..took many of my shoes there to get "clets" put on them. When this shop closed we used tony's in the 700 block of Beatty...he was Italian.
This place was just down the street from my great grandfather's house which was 48 Hancock St.
Was the Columbian Carbon Mapico pigment plant across the street?
During Summer nights, there was this bang, bang, bang all night long when they roasted the iron oxides.
Tindiks was around the corner on Jersey St. I had a great uncle that lived up there as well in the early 1900s.
Anonymous....I think the plant was on Woolverton St..just around the corner from Hancock. Maybe Mack can search-up the info on the plant. I do remember the banging..even up on Beatty where I lived. Tindiks was on Home Ave where Jersey comes into it.
I cannot find pics of The Columbian
Carbon Co.
But its official address in the 1950s was 601 Cass Street..yes
thats at Woolverton but Hancock
right there a block away. Maybe
it was between them.
I see it also in a few Trenton Obits as the place folks worked.
It is called the "Mapico Color
Division" in my records.
This is interesting:)
The Mapico plant was on Woolverton St., just a block over. Thank you!
Trucks came in every day or so with coperas (a light-green iron sulphate) which I think was a waste product of National Lead's Titanium Pigment plant in South Amboy. The sulphate was roasted to make Mapico -- a MAgnetic PIgment or mixed iron oxide.
The entire neighborhood had a red tinge from the dust.
Mack, thanks for this website! I get a kick out of it, for sure.
WG Schultz
I had a girl friend who lived on Third St and I walked past the factory many times...I also remember the "red" dust on the outside of the building. When I left Trenton in '79 the State was putting offices in the abandoned buildings...along with a McDonalds right before where the tracks where (rt 29 now??)
Your welcome WG :)
All you folks make it fun to do:)
God Bless The Ole Burg:)
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