Paterson History Club

12/06/2025

Coming soon on YouTube:
First Baptist Church of Paterson: Community Cornerstone

08/06/2025

The Paterson Museum celebrates 100 years with 100 Artifacts Exhibit! 🎉

100 Artifacts for 100 Years, artifact #43- Dublin Spring by Gaetano Federici. This plaster sculpture is a study for Dublin Spring. The final version, cast in bronze, was located on the corner of Oliver Street and Mill Street in 1931. It was later moved to the end of Oliver Street. The sculpture commemorates the Irish-American community, which once resided in our neighborhood, known as Little Dublin. The sculptor was a local legend in his own right, producing more than 40 public works within two miles of City Hall.

This artifact is one of 100 items selected to be a part of the Paterson Museum’s 100 Artifacts for 100 Years exhibition. If you are interested in seeing this artifact and the other 99 items selected for our centennial in-person, visit the Paterson Museum between now and Feb 27th, 2026.

To learn more about the exhibit and additional programming related around our centennial, please follow us on social media and check out our website: https://patersonmuseum.com/100-artifacts-for-100-years/

07/22/2025

Another amazing artifact on exhibit at the Paterson Museum for its 100th Anniversary Celebration.

100 Artifacts for 100 Years, artifact #38- Mortar and Pestle. Most of the items First Peoples used and made were comprised of organic materials. As a result, the archaeological remains of these items are quite rare. Stone tools are the most robust exception to this phenomenon. Of our hundreds of stone tools, in all shapes and sizes, we have chosen to highlight this mortar and pestle because it is rare to find such a large tool in such good condition.

This artifact is one of 100 items selected to be a part of the Paterson Museum’s 100 Artifacts for 100 Years exhibition. If you are interested in seeing this artifact and the other 99 items selected for our centennial in-person, visit the Paterson Museum between now and Feb 27th, 2026.

To learn more about the exhibit and additional programming related around our centennial, please follow us on social media and check out our website: https://patersonmuseum.com/100-artifacts-for-100-years/

06/04/2025

Stop by the Paterson Museum to celebrate 100 years! 100 Artifacts Exhibit on display.

100 Artifacts for 100 Years, artifact #23- California Quail. The mission and focus of museums have changed a lot since we were founded in the 1920s. Back then, museums were focused on bringing the outside world to their community. With that goal, the Paterson Museum once had a large natural history collection, including shells, nuts and seeds, and taxidermy. Most of those items were removed from the collection as our mission evolved to preserving local history. This quail is one of the few remaining connections to that early history.

This artifact is one of 100 items selected to be a part of the Paterson Museum’s 100 Artifacts for 100 Years exhibition. If you are interested in seeing this artifact and the other 99 items selected for our centennial in-person, visit the Paterson Museum between now and Feb 27th, 2026.

To learn more about the exhibit and additional programming related around our centennial, please follow us on social media and check out our website: https://patersonmuseum.com/100-artifacts-for-100-years/

05/06/2025

First Baptist Church History is Paterson History ⛪️

04/25/2025

National Park Week! 🎉

03/25/2025

Women making History

12/18/2024

When Alexander Hamilton established the S.U.M. in Paterson as the First Planned Industrial City, it was to give all immigrants from all around the world the opportunity to become entrepreneurs by having a place for them to bring their knowledge and experience and be able to produce materials in-house.

Now we have Bob the Builder, Bob Guarasci who chose Paterson 30 years ago to invest his time and energy creating opportunities for families to transform their lives through housing, education, and jobs.