Cricket Batting cages and Table Tennis tables.

Edison, formerly known as Raritan Township, was first settled in the late 1600's, when it was part of Woodbridge and Piscataway townships. Its first families included the Dunhams, Martins, Bonhams, Hulls and FitzRandolphs, to whom land grants were given.

Many of these names live on in the community in the form of street names and section names.

In 1954, a group of citizens proposed a change in the name of the township, partially because of the confusion arising from the fact that several municipalities in the state were named Raritan. The name the voters selected was Edison.

Edison serves as home to more than 100,000 residents and is a hub of rail and highway networks for the distribution of numerous goods and services.

In November 1877, one of Edison’s first major inventions at Menlo Park was the phonograph, which was a basic machine that allowed a person to speak into a diaphragm that was attached to a pin that made indentations on a paper wrapped around wood. The first words Edison successfully recorded on the phonograph were “Mary had a Little Lamb”.

Construction of the Tower continued from May 17, 1937, through February 10, 1938,3 and it was dedicated on February 11, 1938. The Tower was presented as a gift of William Slocum Barstow to the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Incorporated on behalf of the Edison Pioneers.4 The Edison Memorial Tower was constructed at a total cost of $134,200.02