The following articles and photographs cover a wide range of topics and provide an interesting look back in time.  Much of the material was  originally published in PCHS newsletters dating from the 1920s to the present or in old county histories;  however, also included is material prepared by current PCHS members. Although some of the older articles may contain remarks that are not politically correct by today's standards, they provide insight into the era in which they were written. 

The PCHS Genealogy Club Homepage also contains much information about people, places and events in Passaic County history. 

People

David Salisbury Franks - A Profile Richard Varick of Hackensack . . . Patriot, Soldier, Founder From Macclesfield to Paterson "Whistler's Mother" - The McNeills and The Whistlers Life Among the Early Settlers of Acquackanonk Capt. Archibald Belcher Capt. & Mrs. Hugh Irish Alfred Speer Catholina Lambert Immigrants At The Paterson Silk Mills The Capture of John Cadmus -( Revolutionary War) 1886 Letter From George Baker re the Statue of Liberty Celebration Early Physicians in Passaic County Civil War Letter from Herber Wells(Describing The Death of Capt. Hugh Irish, Wounded Men  in Company K and The Battle of Antietam) Aboriginal Vestiges of Garret Mountain Eliza Howard Powers (Civil War Nurse) Dean William McNulty Reminiscences of Paterson "Paterson O'Paterson, How Glorious was Thy Past" - A Historical Sketch on the Life and Times of Robert Hamil The Interesting Career of Judge John W. Rea Passaic County Manumission Records The Early Settlements (Settlers) of West Milford An Act of Kindness - (George Washington) Capt. James Gray - Ironmaster at Little Falls

Places

Dublin, Paterson's First Neighborhood Dublin Spring Destroyed The Founding of Passaic The Totowa Bridge The Naming of Hawthorne Older Place Names in Passaic County Paterson County First Map of Old Paterson` The Old Clifton Racetrack The Naming of Godwinville (Ridgewood) How Auburn Street Was Named Passaic Falls Bridges The Fall of the Dundee Bridge Street Name Changes  (Paterson) Streets Added and Removed (Paterson)  Top Secret - The Cannonball Road Garret Mountain Tower The Naming of Athenia: A Section of Clifton NJ

Fire, Floods, Epidemics, and other Disasters

Paterson Cholera Epidemic 1849 Paterson Cholera Epidemic 1832 The Gun Mill In Flames The Fall of the Dundee Bridge The (Paterson) Tornado of 1903

Organizations and Associations

Passaic Home and Orphans Asylum Paterson Orphans Asylum Association, Inc The Society for Establishing Useful Manufacturers  (S.U.M.) The Memorial Day Nursery - The Nickel House

Festivals and Celebrations The George Washington Bicentennial in Paterson and Passaic County

Education

Earliest  Schools in Passaic County Manchester School No. 11, Hawthorne, NJ

Hospitals Early History of St. Joseph's Hospital, Paterson, NJ

Religion

The True Reformed Church of Acquackanonk ~ The Seceders The First African Methodist Church of Passaic, NJ Paterson Church Directory 1879 Early Catholics in the Passaic County Area Second Presbyterian Church of Paterson Dean William McNulty The Reformed Dutch Churches of Paterson The True Reformed Church of Passaic The Dutch Church of Totowa

Military

Capt. Archibald Belcher Capt. & Mrs. Hugh Irish Pompton's Little Yellow House The Ryder Farm George Washington's Headquarters at the Falls The Capture of John Cadmus (Revolutionary War) Civil War Letter From Herber Wells ( Describing The Death of Capt. Hugh Irish, Wounded Men  in Company K and The Battle of Antietam) Carolina Troops at Totowa in 1780 Eliza Howard Powers (Civil War Nurse) Passaic's Victory Day: How Washington’s Retreat Became Stabilized at Passaic Passaic County in the Revolution

Business and Industry

American Duck (Manufactured at the Phoenix Mill) Paterson Pianos The Great Notch Inn The Passaic Hotel Paterson Silk Manufacturers "Rules" Weavertown - A Small Popularly Named Section of Paterson United States  Hotel

Transportation and Communication

A Steam Carriage Horse Railroads Fisher's Steam Carriage Coach's Legacy Endures (The Deckertown Stage)

Newspapers

The Echo - Clifton's First Newspaper The City of  Passaic Newspapers (1882) New Jersey Daily National  Paterson Newspapers

Houses, Farms,  Buildings, etc.

The United States Hotel (Paterson) The Old Water Mill at Little Falls Historic 1680 Speer Homestead Little Falls Pompton's Little Yellow House Court House Corner Stone Camping in a Castle The Ryder Farm The Great Notch Inn The Passaic Hotel The Fritzsche House (Totowa) The Stynmets-Sip House (Passaic) The Dutch Church of Totowa The Museum Hotel

Arts, Entertainment  and Sports

Rembrant Club The Fritzsche House (Totowa) Poem by William H. Rauchfuss The Age of the Music Box At the Sign of the Brass Dog St. Patrick's Day, APoem by Patersonian, J. Shey, 1823 Outstanding Figures in the Musical History of Paterson The Paterson Theatre Early Nickelodeons in Passaic County The Birth and Early Development of the Motion Picture Sale of Cropsey's Pictures Wayne's Most Famous Resident - The Horse "Preakness"

Interesting, Strange  and Unusual

A Fish Story

Pearl Craze In Passaic County

Vampire Visits Passaic County

The Doors of Grant's Tomb

A Bell With a Remarkable History

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