Paterson, New Jersey, USA
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 River, 12 miles N. of Newark and 17 miles NW. of New York, on the Erie, tho New York, Susquehanna and Western and the Lackawanna Rs. It is connected with several towns by numerous electric lines and with the Delaware River by the Morris Canal. The Passaic River here descends 50 feet in one perpendicular fall and affords extensive water-power, which is utilized in a large number of factories. Numerous bridges bore cross the river, which, below the picturesque cataract, flows between vertical palisades of basalt. The manufactures of Paterson are very extensive and various. The silk-industry is the most important in the United States, the silk-mills and silk-dyeing establishments giving employment to many thousand hands. There are large locomotive- and bridge- works, cotton- and woollen-factories, manufactories of linens, carpets, velvets, iron goods, etc. The city has several academic institutions. Paterson was founded in 1791 and was incorporated as a city in 1851. Pop. in 1850, 11,334; in 1880, 51,031; in 1890, 78,347; in 1900, 105,171.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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