Birch Hill Dam
The Millers River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 river in northern Massachusetts, originating in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, Ashburnham and joining the Connecticut River just downstream from Millers Falls, Massachusetts. Sections of the river are used for whitewater kayaking, and a section upriver is popular with canoe racing, flatwater racers (canoe racing), and the river is known locally as a good place for pike fishing. Native names The river was formerly known as ''Papacontuckquash'', a Nipmuc word meaning "split banks river", from ''papahe'' ("split"), ''akun'' ("bank"), ''tekw'' ("river"), and ''esh'', a plural marker. ''Papacontuckquash'' is cited as the name for the Miller's River, signed and witnessed by the Native leaders on the "Indian Land Deeds for Hampshire County, Later Including Franklin . . . ", where it is also noted that this name is given on "an ancient map" in the ...
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Millers Falls, Massachusetts
Millers Falls is a census-designated place (CDP) in the towns of Montague, Massachusetts, Montague and Erving, Massachusetts, Erving in Franklin County, Massachusetts, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,139 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield metropolitan area, Massachusetts, metropolitan statistical area. History Located along the Mohawk Trail, Millers Falls was first established in 1824 as an agricultural community, named Grout's Corner after first settler Martin Grout (1790–1865). In the 1860s, however, the local growth of railroads stimulated development, as the New London Northern Railroad bought the Amherst, Belchertown and Palmer Railroad, Amherst & Palmer railroad in 1864 and in 1866 extended its line to a connection with the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, Vermont & Massachusetts at Grout's Corner. With this new junction (rail), railroad juncture, the abundant water power of the waterfall, fal ...
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