The city of Paterson has a rich and well-documented industrial history. On the site that was once the Rogers Locomotive and Machine works plant, is where the Paterson Museum is today. Giacomo Destefano is the museum director. He says revolutions in the silk and firearms industries crossed paths not too far away. “The silk industry in the United States started right here. The first successful spinning of silk onto bobbins took place in the winter and spring of 1839 to 1840 in the old gun mill. It