A look into the urban landscapes of Paterson, New Jersey, America's first industrial city envisioned by Alexander Hamilton in 1798 to be the manufacturing center of the nascent United States. Once the "Silk" capital of America with over 100 silk mills, this northern industrial rust belt city reflects the economic changes the country has undergone as manufacturing jobs have left America. Home to the Great Falls, the second largest falls east of the Mississippi after Niagra, and subject of William Carlos Williams's epic poem "Paterson," photographer Mark Hillringhouse takes the viewer on a journey down into the world of this once important city on the Passaic River and shows you its struggle and inner
beauty by taking you inside its closed mills and factories and along its banks of the Passaic River and over to the Great Falls which was recently designated a National Park.