(rshsdepot) ex-Con Ed=Linoleumville

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

So this is slightly still on-topic


  <  After the war, development and industrialization resumed and "company towns" were established to support the factories. To the south of Fresh Kills, the town of Kreischerville (known today as Charleston) was devoted to manufacturing fire bricks, gas retorts, drainpipes and other refractory ware made from clay mined in the vicinity of today's Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve. To the north of Fresh Kills, in the locale of today's Travis, the American Linoleum Company established the town of Linoleumville to support production of innovative linoleum as well as floor cloths, ground cork and linseed oil.

   Industry developed after the Civil War. In 1873, the first linoleum factory in the nation, the American Linoleum Company, was established. At its peak, over 700 people were employed and the factory and related facilities, including workers' housing, covered over 300 acres. The former Con Edison Plant occupies the factory site. Known as Linoleumville, the town retained this name until after the factory closed during the depression; then it became Travis. >

this is from a couple of very good Staten Island history pages:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/fkl/ada/about/1_1_1.html
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/fkl/ada/about/1_3.html

I've scraped bottom:
• LONG NECK VILLAGE. Walling, 1859. Now Linoleumville and Travisville. Long Neck Post Office is named in the N. Y. State Manual for many years, but was discontinued in 1866.

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