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- Great Falls Generating Station Owned by Great Falls Hydroelectric Company, a subsidiary of Algonquin Power Income Fun; operated by Alqonquin Power Systems Installed Capacity: 10,950 Kilowatts
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- In 1791, Alexander Hamilton and a group of investors created the S.U.M., the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, to harness the tremendous power of the Passaic Great Falls. They hired Pierre Charles L’Enfant to design the largest, most significant power system at that time, one that diverted water from the Passaic River above the falls to mills along its route. It was the boldest private enterprise ever conceived in the early days of the United States. Hamilton envisioned an industrialized America and the creation of this raceway system was his ambitious example of how corporations could be organized to develop manufacturing on a large scale. With this enterprise, along with the law, finance and incentives he put in place as the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasurer, Hamilton forged the basis of American capitalism. The planned industrialization of this historic place is the realization of the Hamiltonian vision of an industrialized America.
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- Cotton & silk for clothing; locomotives for travel; paper for books & writing letters; Lucky Lindy’s plane engine. What do they have in common? They all came from the same place! In 1791, Paterson, America’s first planned industrial city, was established, centered around the Great Falls of the Passaic River.
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