John P. Holland’s First Submarine

Was launched in 1878, a one man craft with engine which after a series of trials was sunk in the Passaic River at this spot where she lay buried until raised in 1927 by a group of Paterson youths who presented her to the City of Paterson     October 1, 1927. This tablet is placed in the year 1932 by the Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders in co-operation with The Passaic County Historical Society.