1966: ACME HAMILTON MFG. STOCK CERTIFICATE
Here's a stock certificate from the former Acme Rubber Company which once reposed between East State Street and Walnut Avenue in Hamilton. When Acme-Hamilton closed down, it left us Bromley residents with an eyesore of overgrown weeds and who knows what else. It's almost as though the people responsible for keeping the vacant property assume it is just a block or so away from the city of Trenton where unkempt properties are too numerous to maintain. An exception is the Switlik plant, a stark example of beautifully maintained property when compared to the slum-like vacant lot left by the Acme plant. I thought there was a township ordinance that required citizens and other land owners to maintain their property, but apparenlty I am in error. It remains a mystery that the land owner has been allowed to let the property become so overgrown and unsightly, and a greater mystery that the town fathers have not acted to see that the land owner maintains the area just as it is required of local property owners.
Hi Tom, I hope this comment finds you well! My Grandparents lived on Norway Ave. from the 30's through the late 70's. Their backyard butted up to the Acme Rubber plant. I can remember as a kid, visiting my grandparents; I thought the soil was richest in nutrients of soil I have ever seen! Only to realize when older, it was merely the soot and rubber elements emitting from the plant. Seeing that the owners never addressed the eyesore, I always thought that the EPA would have a field day with this site (even more than gas station renovation today) and this was the reason they remained silent. The NJ politicians are too corrupt to make this an EPA Superfund site. Imagine the housing values to the already depressed area.
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Bob Snyder