THE PATERSON RACEWAY SYSTEM

The Waterpower Network That Built a City

• Hamilton’s Vision
• The S.U.M. and the Great Falls
• Pierre L’Enfant’s Raceway Plan
• The First Raceway — 1792–1799
• The Middle Raceway
• The Lower Raceway
• The Upper Raceway
• Dams, Gatehouses & Wheelhouses
• How the Raceways Powered the Mills
• The Raceways and Paterson’s Silk Industry
• Raceways and the Locomotive Industry
• The Decline of Waterpower
• Raceway Preservation
• Historic Raceway Maps
• The Raceway System Today