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Intro
Poster Map1
Poster Map 2
Highlights
Shaping of Montague
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Early
Maps
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Montague, Massachusetts
1715-1914
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Turners
Falls - 1830 |
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dated 1830, show the Turners falls area when it was open and
undeveloped. Most of the land area on this map is completely built
up now. The first map,
from the Massachusetts Archives, shows one road looping up from
the southwest (from Greenfield), passing the old sawmill site at
the head of the barge canal (the wider line on the left), and then
heading south past the old ferry crossing (now Unity Park).
Barton Cove did not exist then, as the modern high dam was not yet
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Another 1830 map shows that the great Turners Falls waterfall was then called
"Millers Lower Falls". (North is to the left on this map...the
small river entering on the left is Fall River.)
This map
is a little more accurate than the other map, being based on a
survey by the Army Corps of Engineers. The survey was done
because there were plans to build a wide, more modern canal
bypassing the falls. Those plans never came to reality. |
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* Please note that these "web" images are blurry because they have
been degraded for fast internet viewing. |
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