The Falls has been running very high lately. At this time of year evaporation is very little, so almost all the water flowing in the Passaic River Watershed reaches our Falls. And even the smallest additional rainfall adds to the intensity. | Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park

This video gives a little bit of the history of what was upstream. The video is centered on Morris County west of Paterson, so Boonton, Rockaway, Dover and Wharton. They were all iron towns with mining, smelting and forging. Like Paterson, they were on the Morris Canal and like Paterson, the canal was replaced by railroads. As their iron trade declined (in the years after the Civil War) they all added silk mills to their industrial base. When we see the water slowing vigorously over the Falls, t

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