Menlo Park, New Jersey the phonograph and developed a commercially viable incandescent light bulb filament. Christie Street in Menlo Park was one of the first streets in the world to use electric lights for illumination. Edison left Menlo Park and moved his home and laboratory to West Orange, New Jersey in 1887. After his death, the Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum was constructed near his old Menlo Park lab and dedicated in 1938. Edison's old lab site and memorial now make up Edison State Park. The municipality in which Menlo Park is located, which was called "Raritan Township" while he was alive,
Menlo Park Terrace, New Jersey Menlo Park Terrace, New Jersey Menlo Park Terrace is an unincorporated community located within Woodbridge Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is located off U.S. Route 1 in between Menlo Park Mall and Woodbridge Center. It is a residential suburban neighborhood with an ethnically diverse population, a fire station, and Menlo Park Terrace School #19, which services grades K-5 under the direction of Principal Margret Truppa. Menlo Park Terrace is located off exit 130 off the Garden State Parkway, and can be seen along the parkway heading southbound. It houses one of the U.S. missile storages Residents