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May 2, 1982. Turners Falls Historic District is a historic district encompassing much of the historic center of the village of Turners Falls in the town of Montague, Massachusetts. The village is a well-preserved example of an 1870s planned industrial community. It is roughly bounded by the Connecticut River, Power Canal, 9th and L Street.
Turners Falls is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Montague in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,512 at the 2020 census. [4] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Colonial victory, expulsion of Native American tribes. The Battle of Turner's Falls or Battle of Grand Falls; also known as the Peskeompscut-Wissantinnewag Massacre, was a battle and massacre occurring on May 19, 1676, in the context of King Philip's War in what is present-day Gill and Greenfield, across from Turners Falls on the Connecticut ...
In 1974, the Brotherhood became the legally-recognized Renaissance Church Community and moved its operations to the mill town of Turners Falls, MA. Resentment and Metelica's increasing abusive behavior due to drug and alcohol addictions led to eventual migrations of members out of the community until 1988 when the few remaining members paid ...
The Riverside Archeological District encompasses a sizable tract of land north of Turners Falls, a major whitewater rapids on the Connecticut River, north of the eponymous village of Turners Falls, Massachusetts in Gill and Greenfield. Located in northern Massachusetts near the mouths of four major tributaries to the Connecticut, the area has ...
The Turners Falls branch was a railway line in Franklin County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It ran 3 miles (4.8 km) from a junction with the Fitchburg route east of Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Turners Falls, Massachusetts. It was originally built in 1868 by the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, later part of the Boston and Maine ...
92000077 [1] Added to NRHP. March 11, 1992. The South Hadley Canal was a canal along the Connecticut River in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the earliest navigable canal in the United States, with operation commencing in 1795. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the South Hadley Canal Historic District .
History. Construction end. 1938. Location. The Turners Falls–Gill Bridge (sometimes called the Gill–Montague Bridge ), is a steel deck truss bridge crossing the Connecticut River in Massachusetts. It connects the Town of Gill with the village of Turners Falls in the Town of Montague. The bridge carries automobile and pedestrian traffic.