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The Rise and Fall of America’s First Industrial City: Paterson

Paterson, New Jersey was not built by accident. In 1791, Alexander Hamilton stood before the Great Falls of the Passaic River and envisioned something radical: America’s first planned industrial city. Powered by the force of a 77-foot waterfall and an engineered raceway system, Paterson became the center of the nation’s silk industry—earning the name Silk City. At its height, thousands of workers filled the mills, weaving luxury fabric that traveled across the world. But the same forces that built Paterson eventually made it obsolete. Cheaper labor in the South, the invention of synthetic fabrics like nylon, and shifting global markets slowly drained the city’s purpose. The falls still thunder. The raceways still carry water. But the looms are silent. This is the rise and fall of America’s first industrial city. Subscribe for more untold histories of America’s lost empires. 00:00 — The Silent Mills of Paterson 00:35 — The Great Falls of the Passaic River 01:38 — The Lenape and the Roaring Water 02:47 — Alexander Hamilton’s Industrial Vision 03:58 — Building America’s First Planned Industrial City 05:48 — The Rise of “Silk City” 07:02 — Life Inside the Silk Mills 08:21 — Immigrant Workers and Tenement Life 10:59 — The 1913 Paterson Silk Strike 13:37 — The Industry Begins to Collapse 14:43 — Nylon and the End of Silk Dominance 15:49 — Factories Close and Workers Leave 16:24 — What Remains of Paterson’s Industrial Empire