Cascade is an

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within the city of

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and the town of

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, United States. The village gets its name from a nearby alpine

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, which is visible in the hills to the east. The village straddles

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, the main road into Berlin from the south. On the eastern side of the road, there is a paper finishing mill located on flatlands by the

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known as "Cascade Flats". On the western side there is a hill known as "Cascade Hill".

History

In the mid-1800s, travelers were attracted by the beauty of the Alpine Cascades. At that time, the cascades were reached by a small wire suspension bridge and a little trail through a grove. In 1904, construction of the Cascade Mill began by the

Brown Company The Brown Company, known as the Brown Corporation in Canada, was a pulp and papermaking company based in Berlin, New Hampshire, United States. They closed their doors during the 1980s. History H. Winslow & Company In 1852, a group of Portla ...

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and

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immigrants help build the mill and later settled around it. Unfinished paper products from the Berlin mill were brought to this mill by two GE 70-ton locomotives, and from there the paper processes were finished. The mill is now Gorham Paper and Tissue, which is managed by

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. In 1988, archaeological digs discovered four

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sites on the east side of the

in the area of Pulsifer Rips, a two-mile-long stretch of river below Cascade Dam. The sites include remains of a village and stone tool workshops.

Image gallery

File:Cascade Mill 1914.jpg, Cascade Mill, 1914 File:Construction of Cascade Mill.jpg, Construction of the Cascade Mill, 1904

References

External links

"Berlin New Hampshire History"
at weebly.com Unincorporated communities in New Hampshire Unincorporated communities in Coös County, New Hampshire Berlin, New Hampshire {{NewHampshire-geo-stub