Edison Portland Cement Company

1901 - 1941

Manufactured the cement for "The Concrete Mile". The first concrete road in the state of New Jersey.

View the top of the cement plant silo through the viewfinder.

Marker can be reached from New Jersey Route 57 ½ mile west ...

Portland Cement

This industry was born in the Lehigh Valley. David O. Saylor first made portland cement at Coplay in 1871. Here also was the first use of the rotary kiln process commercially Nov. 8, 1889. This region has continued to lead ...

Portland Cement

This industry was born in the Lehigh Valley. David O. Saylor first made portland cement at Coplay in 1871. Here also was the first use of the rotary kiln process commercially Nov. 8, 1889. This region has continued to lead ...

First Portland Cement Concrete Street

This is the first Portland

Cement concrete street built

in the United States.

Constructed in 1891

Here started the Better Roads

Movement which has given our

citizens from coast to coast

swift and sure transportation

1891 1941

Marker is on Columbus Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy ...

Medusa Portland Cement Company

The Sandusky Portland Cement Company, later known as the Medusa Portland Cement Company, was founded here in 1892 by Arthur, Spencer and William Newberry, sons of geologist Dr. John Strong Newberry. Portland cement was manufactured at the Bay Bridge plant ...