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Downtown Paterson

Downtown Paterson

Hardcover

Travel GeneralGeneral PhotographyRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $39.99

ISBN10: 1531641083
ISBN13: 9781531641085
Publisher: Arcadia Lib Ed
Published: Mar 1 1999
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
It was a corporate experiment--an experiment that would later be known as Paterson, New Jersey. Home of the Great Falls, Paterson holds the distinction of being the first planned industrial center of the United States. The land of the Lenape and a few Dutch settlers would be forever changed when politicians and wealthy investors founded Paterson as a corporation, as opposed to chartering it as a city, in 1792. At a crucial turning point in our young, agrarian-based nation, the struggles and triumphs of individuals from diverse ethnic groups would be set into historic motion. Over 100 photographs of Paterson's rich past and complicated present have been woven together with text from noted historians and poets, focusing on the downtown historic area. Downtown Paterson takes us on a journey from the beginnings of the proverbial Silk

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Regional: Middle Atlantic