During the decontamination process, radioactive materials were carried away by wind and rain to the yards of nearby residents. The site was used from 1955 to 1967 for the sampling and storage of thorium residues, and was decontaminated, certified, and released for unrestricted use in 1967. It was later discovered that radioactive waste had been disposed off a half mile away at the Middlesex Municipal Landfill. From 1943 to 1955, under the direction of the Manhattan Project and its successor agency, the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), it was used to crush, dry, screen, weigh, assay, store, package, and ship uranium ore, along with thorium and beryllium ores, for the development of the atomic bomb. The Middlesex Sampling Plant on Mountain Avenue in Middlesex, New Jersey, is a 9.6 acres (38,800 m 2) site which was initially used to stockpile weapons-grade uranium ore. Virgin School was the first parochial school built in 1954. As the Borough grew new schools were constructed to accommodate many more students. The original Pierce School was known as the East Bound Brook School House and The Parker House was also used for education until it was converted into a two-family house. The Harris Lane School was a one-room schoolhouse and it was the oldest school in Middlesex County, at one time, dating back to its construction in the 1790s. There were already a few schools set up before Middlesex became a borough in 1913. In 1905, the Lincoln section of Middlesex organized a volunteer fire company and that set the organization of four other fire companies in the Borough. Two constables were the law enforcement officers and were soon assisted by five appointed marshals. George Harris was elected as the first mayor and the first borough council was elected at the same time. Middlesex was a portion of Piscataway Township, until when it was incorporated as a separate entity through the action of the state legislature and local referendum. The borough’s name derives from Middlesex, England. Middlesex was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 9, 1913, from portions of Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 6, 1913. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough’s population was 13,635 reflecting a decline of 82 (-0.6%) from the 13,717 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 662 (+5.1%) from the 13,055 counted in the 1990 Census.
Middlesex is a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
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