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Passaic Falls
The Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park is a 6/10 of a mile away from Slater House. Paterson was planned and designed to be an industrial town. Alexander Hamilton started an organization called The Society for Useful Manufacturing which cast a vision of an entire city that made everything a growing country’s population needed. Some…
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Slater House Ancestors
I wasn’t planning to share this story here, because it wasn’t supposed to be related to the Slater House project. And it’s still not, to be fair. Starting at the beginning: Snow is finally melting here in Minneapolis after SEVEN MONTHS of winter. First snowfall came in September and it’s only now starting to warm…
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How Young was “Young” in 1935?
It might sound like an age-bashing question, but this newspaper clipping is from 1935. I saw that Thomas Graham, Jr was the driver of the vehicle, and at 23 I think it’s still safe to call him young but the reporter didn’t list anyone else’s age. Let’s fact check the youth of the rest of…