Wow, I'm clearing cob webs trying to remember the exact location of this place, at the time '01 I lived in Woodbridge or Fords. I remember this being in the local paper, not the star ledger, but the other significant paper I forget the name of it, and I sure bought enough of them at the local "quick check". It will come to me, later today... LOL !
Now they seemed to have condemned the place first, under whatever laws, then proceeded with eminent domain to seize it. What stood out was that it was basically taken for the towns needs. It made me think about our place here, kind of isolated, center of town, could they try it ? If they did something like this to a landowner around here, I think people would come out of the woodwork, it would get extremely ugly quickly. The whole principle of these proceedings, taking a 3rd generation farm, its hard to actually believe.
You do not even own the land when you think about it, just stop paying property taxes and see what happens.
When I first started with Tobar Site contractors out of Morristown NJ, we had a big site job in Edison, as expansive as that tract in the photo, all of our scrapers, both D8's, + rentals, mass excavation, grading the site for development. I remember moving the equipment and hauling it on 287. We used to deal quite a bit with Foley Cat in Piscataway, for some reason I thought it was a different town, but looking at the google earth or maps, makes sense now, so much time has passed. I do recall "Possumtown Road" but still can't orientate myself to where this farm is, LOL senility.... nahh still too young, well I hope LoL !
How many people in their later years, have been forced out, hate hearing about that, then again there is a bigger picture in life, but its demoralizing when you think what happened here. I can't believe even after the fact they did nothing with the place, hypocrisy at its finest.
That red clay/soil always stands out, some areas are heavy with that in NJ, I was on a big site job for C. Caruso in North Brunswick, assigned to a D8K and the other one sometimes, a fiat allis FD30, with a big ole V8 Deutz in it, playing in that red soil.
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