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We would like to provide the residents of  Somerset  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Somerset Home page. The Somerset Home page provides as much information as possible on Somerset. Knowing Somerset’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Somerset’s Home page, you will also find Somerset’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Somerset has a population of 24119. 48.4% of Somerset’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.6 are female. 48.5% of Somerset is married and 72.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $321,476, and the average rent is $1,704. Household median income in Somerset is $93,643, and the individual median income is $48,027. Somerset’s Ethnic is the following: White(41.3%), Black(31.4%), Asian(21.3%), Hispanic(11.8%), Multiple(4.3%), Other(1.4%), Native(0.1%).


New Brunswick Marconi Station was located at JFK Boulevard and Easton Avenue just a few minutes from the New Brunswick border. Today it is the site of Marconi Park. It was an early radio transmitter facility built in 1913 and operated by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. After the interruption of transatlantic telegraph cables by enemy action, the facility was confiscated by the United States Navy on April 7, 1917, to provide transatlantic communications during World War I.


The New Brunswick Naval Radio Station was the principal wartime communication link between the United States and Europe, using the callsign NFF. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted from the site in 1918. After the war, ownership of the station, along with Marconi's other US assets, was transferred from the navy to RCA.


The antenna masts were demolished in 1952 to make room for what is now a small mall containing a Kmart, but the buildings on the other side of JFK Boulevard were spared. All but one of the brick buildings were demolished around 2004 to make way for a storage locker facility. The bricks and tiles were saved for use in any future restoration of the spared building, and the Marconi facility in Belmar, New Jersey. During World War I, the original Marconi spark-gap transmitter was replaced with an Alexanderson alternator, the invention of the famous General Electric engineer, with an output power of 200 kilowatts and looking like an ordinary power station generator.


Its frequency was around 17 kHz, which made its wavelength around 17,500 meters. The station used a huge 5,000-foot-long (1,500 m) antenna supported by eight 400-foot (120 m) tall steel masts, similar to the AT&T long wave telephone transmitter at RCA's Rocky Point, Long Island, transmitter facility.


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