Manville, New Jersey

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Manville is a Borough in Somerset County whose 2010 population was 10,344 and has a total area of 2.5 square miles. Manville was named after the Johns-Manville Corporation, which maintained a large manufacturing facility in the borough for decades. Manville was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 1, 1929, with a referendum held on April 18, 1929. The Johns-Manville Corporation used to manufactured asbestos and was dissolved into a trust to provide compensation for victims from a class action settlement. The former plant site has been cleaned up and turned into a shopping and entertainment complex.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manville,_New_Jersey
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Coordinates:   40°32'32"N   74°35'16"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago