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I was continuing on my Walk Across America when I stopped on a cracked sidewalk in Trenton, New Jersey , and stared up at a bridge that’s seen better days. Its steel spine carries a motto that still packs a punch: Trenton Makes, the World Takes.

Those words aren’t just a slogan. They’re a battle cry from a time when this city’s pulse was the bustle of factories, the hum of machines and the sweat of men and women who built something real— something that mattered. From here, steel, rubber and ceramic material flowed out, shaping the world beyond the river. That was Trenton’s pride, its soul.

Walk these streets now, and you feel the weight of what’s been lost. The factories are gone — hollow ghosts, like the dreams of the p

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