Proclamation 3148—Establishing the Edison Laboratory National Monument—New Jersey

Whereas the Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments, recognizing the primary significance in our civilization and industry of the Edison Home (Glenmont) and Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey, recommended that they be considered eligible for recognition as being the most suitable sites at which to commemorate the outstanding achievements of the great American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison; and

Whereas the Edison Home (Glenmont) was designated as a national historic site by order of the Secretary of the Interior of December 6, 1955 (20 F. R. 9347), in furtherance of its preservation for the benefit and inspiration of the American people; and

Whereas the Edison Laboratory, used by the great inventor for the last 44 years of his life and the scene of many of his celebrated inventions, has been generously donated to the American people for preservation as a national monument:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim and declare that the following-described land, with the improvements thereon, situated in the Town of West Orange, County of Essex, State of New Jersey, are hereby established as the Edison Laboratory National Monument, and shall be administered pursuant to the act of August 25, 1916, 39 Stat. 535 (16 U.S.C. 1-3), and acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof:

BEGINNING in the southeasterly line of Main Street, formerly known as Valley Road, at a point formed by intersecting same with the northeasterly line of Lakeside Avenue; running thence (1) along the southeasterly line of Main Street north thirty-seven degrees seventeen minutes thirty seconds (37° 17' 30") east fifty-four and three hundredths feet (54.03'); thence (2) still along the said line of Lakeside Avenue north forty-one degrees thirty-three minutes thirty seconds (41' 33' 30") east two hundred seven and fifty-two hundredths feet (207.52'); thence (3) south forty-nine degrees thirty-two minutes twenty seconds (49° 32' 20") east one hundred fifty-six and ninety-one hundredths feet (158.91'); thence (4) south forty-one degrees twenty-two minutes (41° 22') west sixty-two and seventy-five hundredths feet (62.75'); thence (5) south forty-eight degrees thirty-eight minutes (48° 38') east one hundred thirty-six and eighty-three hundredths feet (138.83'); thence (6) south forty-one degrees twenty-two minutes (41° 22') west one hundred twenty-two and twelve hundredths feet (122.12') to a point in the driveway running between the buildings now standing on the premises herein described; thence (7) along said driveway north forty-eight degrees thirty-eight minutes (48° 38') west thirty-four and seventy-six hundredths feet (34.76') to a point in a line drawn northeasterly, parallel with and four inches (4") easterly of the westerly face of a brick partition wall standing within the one-story brick portion of the Thomas A. Edison Laboratory Building; thence (8) along the line described as being within the said wall south forty-one degrees thirty-eight minutes (41° 38') west sixty-four and eighteen hundredths feet (64.18') to the outside or southerly face of the brick Laboratory Building fronting on Lakeside Avenue; thence (9) along the Nee of the said building north forty-eight degrees thirty-six minutes (48° 38') west two and thirty-three hundredths feet (2.33'); thence (10) south forty-one degrees twenty-four minutes (41° 24') west fifteen feet (15') to the northeasterly line of Lakeside Avenue; and running thence (11) along same north forty-eight degrees thirty-six minutes (48° 36') west two hundred fifty-three and eighteen hundredths feet (253.18') to the place of BEGINNING, containing 1.51 acres more or less, being the same land conveyed by Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, to the United States of America by deed of donation, dated December 5, 1955, and recorded on December 5, 1965, in Book 3389 at page 87, in the Register's Office, Essex County, New Jersey.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this National Monument.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this 14th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State