Cascade is an
unincorporated community
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within the city of
Berlin
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and the town of
Gorham, New Hampshire
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, United States. The village gets its name from a nearby alpine
waterfall
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of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
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, which is visible in the hills to the east. The village straddles
New Hampshire Route 16
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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
Androscoggin River
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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. It stopped trading during the 1980s.
History
H. Winslow & Company
In 1852, a group of Portland ...
.
Italian
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and
Polish
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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
Patriarch Partners
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.
In 1988, archaeological digs discovered four
prehistoric
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sites on the east side of the
Androscoggin River
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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
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