Is this your home town? Wanna see a bit of what was goin’ on in 1977-87. Click the image to visit 40 Millers Falls locations in our New Viewer. From there use the viewer’s arrow buttons to view the images with descriptions. Thanks for the visit . . . lotsa neat memories await. View this […]
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Explore this John Russell Cutlery poster in our new image viewer! The John Russell Cutlery was once the nation’s leading cutlery maker. They operated the “Green River Works” for more than 40 years at Greenfield and Deerfield’s “Cheapside district, at today’s location of Deerfield and Meridian Streets in Greenfield MA. This poster celebrates the new
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From 1968 to 1988 the Brotherhood of the Spirit Renaissance Community (Commune) operated numerous small business in Turners Falls. They purchased the Colle Opera House building and it served as “home” to four of those endeavors and a “stage” for the “Spirit in Flesh” the Commune band. The Brotherhood painted the building as you see
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Turners Falls Power Canal A major player in the development of Turners Falls as an industrial “city” is the canal that supplied water to the various mills. Water coursed through their penstocks to turn the waterwheels which in turn ran geared linkages to operate machinery. Canal drained with the Keith paper mill along side. Each
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