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Turners Falls is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Montague in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,512 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Colonial victory, expulsion of Native American tribes. The Battle of Turner's Falls or Battle of Grand Falls; also known as the Peskeompscut-Wissantinnewag Massacre, was a battle and massacre occurring on May 19, 1676, in the context of King Philip's War in what is present-day Gill and Greenfield, across from Turners Falls on the Connecticut ...
GNIS feature ID. 0618171 [1] Website. www.montague-ma.gov. Ted Williams (Right) during Flight Training at the Turners Falls Airport in 1942. Montague is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,580 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts metropolitan statistical area.
Philip was a star high school football player, scoring the winning touchdown in Turners Falls High School's 1942 annual game against rival Greenfield High School. [2] Hoff attended Williams College, where he studied English, but postponed graduation for two years in order to serve in World War II. [2]
The Brotherhood of the Spirit (renamed Renaissance Community in 1974) was one of the largest and most enduring communes in the northeast United States and as such was a distinct link between the commune phenomenon of the 1960s and the current New Age movement. In existence from 1968 through 1988, its rise and fall mirrored that of its ...
In the 1670s the Nipmuc had a village called Peskeompscut in that area. During King Philip's War in 1676, Captain William Turner led 150 colonists in an attack on this settlement, in which 100-200 Indians (mostly women, children, and elderly) were slain. The falls came to be known as Turners Falls after Turner, who was slain in the battle.
Essex County. Georgetown High School, Georgetown. Gloucester High School, Gloucester. Ipswich High School, Ipswich. Lynnfield High School, Lynnfield. Manchester-Essex Regional Junior-Senior High School, Manchester-by-the-Sea. Marblehead High School, Marblehead. Masconomet Regional High School, Boxford. Newburyport High School, Newburyport.
May 2, 1982. Turners Falls Historic District is a historic district encompassing much of the historic center of the village of Turners Falls in the town of Montague, Massachusetts. The village is a well-preserved example of an 1870s planned industrial community. It is roughly bounded by the Connecticut River, Power Canal, 9th and L Street.