Eight years after the dam began its contribution to industrial progress, it failed catastrophically, destroying mills and homes along the Mill River all ... The 600-foot-long dam rose 43 feet ...

The longer term plan is to extend the park all the way down to the Long Island Sound and as far north as the Merritt Parkway as part of the Mill River Greenway project. Karp sees the ...

It happened in 1874 when a dam in the Mill River collapsed sending 600 million gallons of water rushing through the towns of Williamsburg, Haydenville, and Leeds. The flood wave was said to be 40 ...

HATFIELD — An historic dam on School Street, where the rushing water in the Mill River forms a waterfall ... engineering design approach, part of a long process that includes permitting and ...