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Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
"Pat'erson, a city of New Jersey, the capital of Passaic co., and the third city of the state in population and manufactures, is situated on the right bank of the Passaic River, 12 miles N. of Newark, and 17 miles N.W. of New York. It is on the Erie Railroad, the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, and the Paterson, Jersey City & Hoboken Electric Railroad, and is connected with several towns by numerous electric lines, whose connections pass through many of its principal streets. It is also connected with the Delaware and Hudson Rivers by the Morris Canal. The Passaic River here descends 70 feet in one perpendicular fall, and affords immense water-power, which is utilized in numerous factories. The streets are lighted by electricity. Paterson contains 60 churches, a free public library, a high school, 3 national banks, 3 savings-banks, 3 hotels, 2 large public parks, and printing-offices which issue 5 daily and 5 weekly newspapers. Thirteen bridges here cross the river, which, be ' the picturesque cataract called Passaic Falls, flows between vertical palisades of basalt. The manufactures of Paterson are very extensive and various. It has 6 cotton mills, several iron-foundries and machine-shops, about 80 silk-factories, 2 manufactories of locomotives, a manufactory of linen goods, several woollen factories, bleaching and dyeing establishments, and manufactories of velvet, carpets, jute, engines, and boilers. The silk-factories of Paterson employ about 15,000 persons, and are the largest in the United States. The value of the silk goods produced here in one year sometimes amounts to $4,000,000. The value of all the products manufactured in Passaic co. (nearly all in Paterson) reaches $30,000,000. The capital invested in these manufactories is about $20,000,000. Pop, in 1880, 51,031; in 1890, 78,347; in 1894 (estimated), 105,000. "
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
"Pat'erson, a city of New Jersey, the capital of Passaic co., and the third city of the state in population and manufactures, is situated on the right bank of the Passaic River, 12 miles N. of Newark, and 17 miles N.W. of New York. It is on the Erie Railroad, the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, and the Paterson, Jersey City & Hoboken Electric Railroad, and is connected with several towns by numerous electric lines, whose connections pass through many of its principal streets. It is also connected with the Delaware and Hudson Rivers by the Morris Canal. The Passaic River here descends 70 feet in one perpendicular fall, and affords immense water-power, which is utilized in numerous factories. The streets are lighted by electricity. Paterson contains 60 churches, a free public library, a high school, 3 national banks, 3 savings-banks, 3 hotels, 2 large public parks, and printing-offices which issue 5 daily and 5 weekly newspapers. Thirteen bridges here cross the river, which, be ' the picturesque cataract called Passaic Falls, flows between vertical palisades of basalt. The manufactures of Paterson are very extensive and various. It has 6 cotton mills, several iron-foundries and machine-shops, about 80 silk-factories, 2 manufactories of locomotives, a manufactory of linen goods, several woollen factories, bleaching and dyeing establishments, and manufactories of velvet, carpets, jute, engines, and boilers. The silk-factories of Paterson employ about 15,000 persons, and are the largest in the United States. The value of the silk goods produced here in one year sometimes amounts to $4,000,000. The value of all the products manufactured in Passaic co. (nearly all in Paterson) reaches $30,000,000. The capital invested in these manufactories is about $20,000,000. Pop, in 1880, 51,031; in 1890, 78,347; in 1894 (estimated), 105,000. "
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
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- 1791 - Alexander Hamilton built country's first planned industrial city in Paterson
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ njtimeln.htm - 1814 - The first church incorporated in Paterson was the 1st Presbyterian church, in 1814.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY by JOHN W. BARBER and HENRY HOWE, 1844 - 1835 - Colt firearms begins production in Paterson
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ njtimeln.htm - 1844 - Paterson
Paterson was formed from Acquackanock in 1831. Its population in 1840 was 7,598. The village of Paterson, the seat of justice for Passaic county, is...Read MORE... 
View of the Passaic Falls, at Paterson. (1844)
1869 - Great Fire in Paterson.
Mr. Michael Morris's warehouse, Paterson, and adjacent buildings were burned on Monday. The warehouse owned by Mr. Morris was used as a waste house....Read MORE...- 1873 - Explosion
Lat night, a patent gas machine at Danforth locomotive works, Paterson, N. J., was exploded by a watchman approaching too near it with a lantern. Two ...Read MORE... - 1880 - DESTRUCTIVE FIRE in PATERSON, N. J.
PATERSON, N. J., March 4. - A fire broke out in the oil room of the Danforth locomotive and machine shops, in this city, this morning, about 8...Read MORE... - 1896 - ONE KILLED AND A DOZEN INJURED. RESULT OF A RUNAWAY ACCIDENT IN PATERSON, N. J.
Paterson, N. J., May 5. - One child was killed, another probably fatally hurt, and a dozen adults more or less bruised by a frightened team on Main...Read MORE... - 1902 - HUNDREDS HOMELESS IN PATTERSON FLOOD - Armory Opened and 110 Families Sheltered There
Mrs. Garret A. Hobart at Head of Relief Committee
One Life Lost
Water Starts to Recede
PATTERSON. N. J., March 2 — This city, so recently...Read MORE... - 1902 - PATERSON LAID WASTE BY FIRE - Business Section and a Hundred Dwellings Burned
LOSS ABOUT $8,000,000
Banks, Churches, Hotels, Municipal Buildings, and Newspaper Offices in Ruins
MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED
Police Reinforced by...Read MORE... - 1903 - TORNADO SWEEPS OVER PATERSON. FOUR ARE KILLED AND MANY HOUSES WRECKED. MISSILES HURT SCORES. SMALL BUILDINGS CARRIED GREAT DISTANCE -- DEVASTATION IN SECTION THAT ESCAPED DAMAGE BY GREAT FIRE AND FLOOD.
Paterson, N.J., July 22 - A dense black cloud, assuming the shape of a cone, and whirling with furious rapidity, loomed up over the top of Garrett...Read MORE... - 1906
Paterson, capital of Passaic co., N.J., and the third oity of the state in population and manufactures, is situ ated on the right bank of the Passaic ...Read MORE... 
General Hospital
Ellison Street
postmarked 1909
Free Public Library
postmarked 1909
Main Street
postmarked 1909
Public School No. 16
postmarked 1910
Main Street (1910)
Hotel Manhattan
The Hamilton Apartments
postmarked 1912
5th Regiment Armory
postmarked 1915
Birdseye View- 1920 - HOTEL DESTROYED BY EARLY MORNING FIRE.
Paterson, N. J., May 24. - Fire early today gutted the Manhattan Hotel, a four-story brick structure in the business district of this city. Lives of...Read MORE... 
Market Street
postmarked 1920
Fabien Theatre Building and Alexander Hamilton Hotel
postmarked 1920
Passaic Falls and Chasm Bridge, Paterson, N.J.- 1940 - October 30 - Film premiere of "One Night in the Tropics" first film for Abbott and Costello Paterson New Jersey.
historyorb.com - 1964 - August 11 - Race riot in Paterson NJ
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