Paterson: Silk City and America's First Planned Industrial Town
Alexander Hamilton selected the 77-foot drop of the Great Falls of the Passaic River as the site for the nation's first planned industrial city in 1792. The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures laid out a raceway system that harnessed the waterpower for cotton, then locomotives, then above all silk. By the late nineteenth century Paterson was producing more silk than any other American city and was known simply as Silk City.
The Great Falls were designated a National Historical Park in 2011, preserving the raceway district, the Rogers Locomotive Works, and the surrounding industrial structures. Paterson sits in Passaic County and has a population of approximately 148,000, making it the third-largest city in New Jersey.
The city has absorbed successive waves of immigration. Italians and Eastern European Jews dominated the textile era; Paterson today is home to one of the largest Arab American populations in the United States, with established Palestinian, Syrian, Turkish, and Dominican communities. South Main Street in the South Paterson neighborhood serves as a commercial spine for Middle Eastern restaurants, bakeries, and markets.
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Alexander Hamilton selected the 77-foot drop of the Great Falls of the Passaic River as the site for the nation's first planned industrial city in 1792. The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures laid out a raceway system that harnessed the waterpower for cotton, then locomotives, then above all silk. By the late nineteenth century Paterson was producing more silk than any other American city and was known simply as Silk City.
The Great Falls were designated a National Historical Park in 2011, preserving the raceway district, the Rogers Locomotive Works, and the surrounding industrial structures. Paterson sits in Passaic County and has a population of approximately 148,000, making it the third-largest city in New Jersey.
The city has absorbed successive waves of immigration. Italians and Eastern European Jews dominated the textile era; Paterson today is home to one of the largest Arab American populations in the United States, with established Palestinian, Syrian, Turkish, and Dominican communities. South Main Street in the South Paterson neighborhood serves as a commercial spine for Middle Eastern restaurants, bakeries, and markets.
Coverage of Paterson on Escortservice.com is limited to catalog entries for escort websites serving the area. Escortservice.com is a directory. Bookings, verifications, and mediation fall outside what the site does. Access requires a minimum age of 21.
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