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Paterson Great Falls

Paterson, NJ

A 77-foot waterfall in the middle of Paterson powered Alexander Hamilton's planned industrial city and generations of mills and factories. Today the natural spectacle and surviving industrial landscape are protected as a National Historical Park.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/pagr/

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