Paterson, New Jersey, USA
1895 - Paterson

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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