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    Paterson has been celebrated by the poet William Carlos Williams in his famous eponymous work, and was also the inspiration for Alexander Hamilton's vision of an industrial America.  He facilitated the creation in 1791 of the Society of Useful Manufactures.  The city was named for William Paterson's, New Jersey's governor at the time and a signatory ot the Declaration of Independence.  Its manufacturing output included the Colt revolver, textiles, the Sandusky (the country's first steam locomotive, and the engine for Charles Lindbergh's plane, The Spirit of St. Louis.  In 1913, Paterson was the site of a strike in the silk industry that attracted national attention; it was predicated on the charge that weavers be assigned four looms instead of two.  That two-loom assignment persists to this day.  The beaux arts buildings that mark much of the downtown were the result of the reconstruction that occurred after the devastating fire of 1902.  Paterson is the county seat for Passaic County.

    To the left is an image of the city from Garret Mountain. 

        For images of the city, click on Paterson 1, Paterson 2.