State of New Jersey, Department of Education

Essex County

Edison National Historic Site

Edison National Historic Site, Main Street and Lakeside Avenue, West Orange, NJ 07052
(973) 736-0550 ext. 42
Home and planned residential community of Thomas Edison. There are several building including the laboratory where edison produced more than 1,000 patents.

Grover Cleveland Birthplace

207 Bloomfield Ave., Caldwell, NJ 07006
(973) 226-0001
This historic house is the birthplace of the only U.S. president elected to two nonconsecutive terms.

Lakeview, The Buckelew House 203 Buckelew Ave., Jamesburg, NJ 08831
(732) 521-2040
This historic house contains the Coach used to carry president elect Lincoln from railroad station to the State House in Trenton.
The Jersey Explorer's Museum 192 Dodd St., East Orange, NJ
(973) 673-6900
Tomb of the Ancient Kings, Black Pioneers of the Wild West, ScienceWorks Lab, and other exhibits. Tuesday to Friday to groups by reservation. Open to the public Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.