Ancestor Salvage

Slater House Project – for Descendants of Dublin

Did your ancestors “drink from the spring” in Dublin? Slater House, located in Paterson’s Dublin neighborhood was home to my Scottish and Irish ancestors, immigrants to the USA. In tracing the fate of the house, I learned of all sorts of adventures, including;

Transparent 1925 Insurance map laid over satellite image of the same patch of earth, roughly 100 years later.
This image was created by laying a transparency of an early 1900’s map atop a screenshot from Google Earth. This shows where a stretch of Slater St was made into a highway. I’d love to find photos taken from the initial surveys and during the construction process.
  • weddings
  • births
  • deaths
  • lawsuits
  • injuries
  • accidents

Over 100 people lived in the house, from every continent on earth, between the 1890’s and 1960’s (Maybe 70’s?). Today it is a freeway onramp. Subscribe here to follow my research adventures and learn little bits of history as I salvage our ancestors from Paterson’s Dublin neighborhood.

Here are some of my latest posts about Slater House:

114 Slater Street Blog Posts: