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1955 Map of Paterson

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Paterson
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

The Passaic River anchors this mid-century portrait of industrial and suburban New Jersey, winding through the urban core of Paterson and Clifton. The landscape is sharply defined by the ridges of First Watchung Mountain and Second Watchung Mountain, which separate the dense neighborhoods of Haledon and Prospect Park from the expanding suburban developments of Wayne and Franklin Lakes. A robust transportation network of the Erie RR and the Lackawanna RR serves the various manufacturing centers and residential boroughs.

Institutional and community landmarks are remarkably dense here, including St Josephs Hospital, the North Jersey Training School, and numerous parochial institutions like Don Bosco Tech Sch. For genealogists, the map identifies significant burial grounds such as Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and Laurel Grove Cemetery. Local infrastructure of the era is evidenced by the Haledon Reservoir and small aviation fields like Murchio Airport and the Totowa-Wayne Airport.