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Passaic, city, Passaic county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., on the Passaic River, 9 miles (14 km) north of Newark. It was established by the Dutch in 1678 as a fur-trading post. In 1685 Hartman Michielson purchased the site, then called Acquackanonk, from the Delaware Indians. It was renamed for the Passaic River in 1854. During the American Revolution it was occupied by General George Washington’s troops, and following their retreat, the British general Lord Cornwallis was quartered there. Passaic thrived as a river port until the completion of the Morris Canal between Newark and Phillipsburg (1831), and the building of ...(100 of 227 words)

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