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Menlo Park

Menlo Park

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Menlo Park 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. residential community, Middlesex co., central N.J., in Edison township. It is the site of Edison Memorial Tower and state park, where Thomas Edison kept his laboratories (1876-1887). Buildings associated with the laboratories were moved to or replicated at Greenfield Village Museum at Dearborn, Mich. Menlo Park developed into a suburban community after the end of World War II.

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Menlo Park

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Menlo Park, California/USA Takes its name from Menlough, Ireland (see next entry).
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