Nixon Nitration Works

Nixon Nitration Works was a chemical company located in both Woodbridge and the Nixon section of Edison, New Jersey that performed nitration chemistry.^[1] It was the site of the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster, a massive explosion and resulting fire that killed twenty people and destroyed several square miles of the township.

References

1. "Lewis Nixon Dies". New York Times. September 24, 1940. Retrieved 2010-03-22. Lewis Nixon, head of the Nixon Nitration Company and the Raritan Sand Company at Nixon, N.J., a pioneer in naval architecture with the advent of steel construction and former leader of Tammany Hall, died here this afternoon in Monmouth Memorial Hospital ...