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Great Falls is a waterfall formed along the Housatonic River at Falls Village in the town of Canaan amidst Connecticut's Litchfield Hills.Great Falls is the highest volume waterfall in the state, [1] though a great deal of its potential water volume is diverted immediately upstream during most of the year for hydro-electric power generation.
Falls Village is a village and census-designated place in the town of Canaan in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of the 2010 census it had a population of 538, [ 3 ] out of 1,234 in the entire town of Canaan.
Great Falls of the Housatonic River below the Falls Village dam. The river has been a source of power for paper, iron, textiles, and electricity industries. [6] At Great Barrington, a grist mill built by David Ingersoll in 1739 used the river for power. [6] The paper industry grew using the river's power from circa 1800. [6]
It has also been called Bellows Falls, and its Abenaki name is Kitchee Pontegu, which means "great falls". Great Falls became its official name, based on local usage, in 2016. [1] It drops 52 feet (16 m), and the village of Bellows Falls (within the town of Rockingham, Vermont) was established next to it, to take advantage of its water power. [2]
Dean's Ravine Falls is a 50-foot-tall (15 m) waterfall formed along Reed Brook in Canaan, Connecticut. [1] The falls were once a "must-see" spot along the 2,180-mile-long Appalachian Trail , until the trail was rerouted west of the Housatonic River through Sharon, Connecticut in the early 1980s.
Floodwaters eroded a roadway outside an apartment complex in Danbury, Connecticut as torrential rain inundated the western part of the state on Aug. 18, 2024.
Kent Falls State Park is a public recreation area located in the town of Kent, Connecticut, within the Litchfield Hills region of the southern Berkshires. The state park is home to Kent Falls, a series of waterfalls on Falls Brook, a tributary of the Housatonic River. [3] The falls drop 250 feet (76 m) in under a quarter mile.
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