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Birdville

Despite its name, this isn't actually a town, but rather a 'factory' in Bayville that manfucatured birdhouses. I found this article about it in the New Jersey Courier from 13 oct 1916:
"A.P. Greims of the Crescent co. has built a fine large shop at Birdville, in the apex between the Mill road and Bushwick Avenue, where they join the Main Shore Road, in Berkeley. The new shop is of cement blocks, with metal roof and was designed by Mr. Greims himself. The shop is 25 feet wide by 84 feet long, and has a high ceiling. The floor is of cement, except at the benches on each side fo the room, where it is of wood, for the men to stand and work on. It is lighted by electricity and has an electric motor to run the saws and other machinery used to make birdboxes. It will be heated by a hotwater plant, and has what is seldom found in a factory, a big open fireplace with benches around it, and an Angelus player piano. For Mr. Greims believes in enjoying life as he goes along, and in having everyone around him enjoy it.
There is also a kiln for drying the lumber they use in the birdbox making. At each end there are large doors, the rough lumber coming in the north end where the saws are located, and going down the line of benches till it is a finished birdbox at the south end, each man making one operation. At the south end there is a fireproof storehouse, 18x36 feet in size, for storing the houses. On the east side, facing Mill Road, there is also an entrance. On the outside the walls are buttressed in the old Norman style and down each buttress runs a drainpipe from the roof to carry off rainwater. The entrance is arranged for flowerbeds on its roof.
Mr. Greims has also at his own expense gravelled the Mill road for some distance and will carry the road on into the grounds. he came here a few years ago and rented a small piece of ground from E.W. Yoder, and put up a small shack, just east of the Berkeley garage, where he started making birdhouses. The business outgrew the location and he bought up the tract where he is now, and put up a shop that he enlarged several times, as he took on more hands. now he has a much bigger fireproof shop, and has planned it so that it can be extended if needs be. Mr. Greims is more than a workman, he is an artist. He has a pride and a joy in his work and is continually working up new designs. One of the most curious features of Birdville is the old frontier blockhouse, in which he has his sleeping quarters.


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