{"id":340,"date":"2013-07-21T07:56:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T07:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=340"},"modified":"2013-07-22T04:10:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T04:10:18","slug":"the-last-remaining-gillespie-buildings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/t-a-gillespie-shell-loading-company\/the-last-remaining-gillespie-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Remaining Gillespie Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Momentos \u2013 The Last Remaining Gillespie Buildings<\/h3>\n
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Non-Descript Albeit Historical Building Along Route 35 in Morgan, NJ.<\/p><\/div>\n

At long last and as promised, I am now convinced that there is not just one but there are indeed two remaining buildings from the great T. A. Gillespie Loading Company facility which used to occupy a huge portion of Morgan.\u00a0 There are a number of previous postings made on this web site about the Gillespie plant and there are a number of them still in work. \u00a0A different page on this Morgan-NJ.org web site shows what most thought to be the lone remaining building, located in Brown\u2019s Boat Yard<\/a>, which used to be part of the power plant.\u00a0 On the northwest side of that building in Brown\u2019s Boat Yard are the remains of walls from the rest of the power plant.\u00a0 Along the docks are the crumbled remains of brick walls as well.\u00a0 We should all be grateful to Brown\u2019s Boat Yard for retaining an almost lost part of Morgan history by, unlike Mr. Gorbachev, not tearing down the walls.\u00a0 I know I am appreciative!<\/p>\n

After a lot of research and greatly aided by the amazing Joyce Elyea with a dash of Randy Gabrielan and Ken Durrua, I feel very comfortable now making the claim that there is indeed one other remaining building left from the World War I era \u201cMorgan Plant.\u201d\u00a0 Interestingly enough, this is a building which I had passed by countless times as a child and, sadly, never noticed except that it was at a strange approximately 45 degree angle to the road.\u00a0 Other than the strange angle of the building, there are few clues when looking just at the front of it.<\/p>\n

Here are the reasons I have come to this conclusion:<\/p>\n