Potters, New Jersey

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

Potters, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 40°35′37″N 74°21′41″W
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Middlesex
Township	Edison
Elevation [1]	92 ft (28 m)
GNIS feature ID	884389[1]

In the northern part of the township, Potters was once known as Potters Crossing, and may been an African-American community as early as the 1800s.[5] Centered around Inman Avenue and Grove Avenue,[6] 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.[7] The community was dispersed during an urban renewal project in the 1960s.[5][8]

See also

• List of neighborhoods in Edison, New Jersey

References

1. "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. Murray, Stuart (April 11, 1976). "Housing Scar in Edison". New York Times. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
6. "Potters Crossing Historic Village District" (PDF). Metuchen-dison Historical Society. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
7. Hatala, Greg (February 17, 2014). "Glimpse of History: Looking for a better life in Edison". NJ Advance Media. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
8. Potter Urban Renewal Project, United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1975