History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . The trackof the old canal is still clearly marked, although in manyplaces the bed has been filled up. As before observed. Col. Crocker and others purchased thestock of this corpoiation in 1805, .and in 1866 obtained thepassage of an act of the Legislature, by which the name of thecorporation was changed to that of The Turners Falls Com-pany. In that year the company purchased largely of landsin Montague Ijing on tlie river-front and adjacent theretonear t
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . The trackof the old canal is still clearly marked, although in manyplaces the bed has been filled up. As before observed. Col. Crocker and others purchased thestock of this corpoiation in 1805, .and in 1866 obtained thepassage of an act of the Legislature, by which the name of thecorporation was changed to that of The Turners Falls Com-pany. In that year the company purchased largely of landsin Montague Ijing on tlie river-front and adjacent theretonear the falls, and built a bulkhead at a cost of §24,000, andon March 20, 1807, the present dam, costing §105,000, wascompleted. The width from shore to shore is upward of 500feet, but about midway between the banks, and dividing thefalls, is Great Island, a rocky and picturesque elevation, which,bedecked with foliage, is, in the bright seasons of the year, awildly romantic-looking spot, which seems appropriately setin the midst of the turbulent and mighty rush of the majestictorrent. The fall over the dam is about thirty feet, and the. - ?**»» 4y S^mu^ SarO (:;^.tyh. (Q^t- ?yyZCiy)/\~^ HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 631 full power equal to tlie strength of 30,000 hoises. The entirefall controlled by the company is about eighty feet. The com-panys canal, occupying a portion of the bed of the old canal,had cost, up to 31aroh, 1879, about $173,000. The companyscapital, originally §200,000, was 5:300,000 in 1879, in which3car its assets included, besides the dam and canal, upwardof 1300 acres of land, covering a long stretch of mill-sites onthe river-front, and building-sites and other real estate in thevillage, as well as the water-right at Factory village, in Green-field, on Fall River, just above Turners Falls. BANKS:There are at Turners Falls two banks, both of which werefounded by Col. Alva Crocker, and now bear his name. TheCrocker National Bank was organized in 1872, has a cap
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