1908: Gibbs Cement/Concrete Block Co

Sanborn Maps, Princeton University Library

     This map shows the location of the Gibbs Concrete Company on McClellan Avenue between Buchanan and Rowan Avenues in 1908.  The cleared site was later the location of a playground for many years.  It is a neighborhood park today.  See:  "Gibbs Cement and Concrete Block Company" at the Wesley Gibbs label at right.   

1912: A Developing BSP

 Trenton Evening Times, September 22, 1912

BSP residents enjoyed the amenites of developed areas due to their closeness to the City of Trenton and the aggessive promotion of land sales by the Ruslings, Gibbs' and other developers.  It was an area of suburban life with city comforts as the article states during a time when most of the Township consisited only of large farms. 

1908: Gibbs Cement and Concrete Block Co.

Trenton Evening Times, June 14, 1908

 Wesley Gibbs' concrete plant was located at Buchanan and McClellan Avenues.  A building on the site measured 300 feet long and 100 feet wide.  It is surmised that the site which consisted of 5,000 sq. ft occupied the corner which later became part of the area of the White City Amusement Park. Much of the residential construction in BSP in the early part of the 20th century utilized concrete blocks.  Gibbs, who  constructed a number of concrete blocks homes, supplied himself and other contractors.   UPDATE:  This enterprise was located on McClellan Avenue between Buchanan and Rowan Avenues, not on the corner of Buchanan and McClellan.