The Very Old and Quaint Early Dams of New England

Richard M. Robinson ()
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Richard M. Robinson: State University of New York

Chapter Chapter 8 in Restoring America's Rivers, 2025, pp 231-260 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter reviews the removals of many of New England’s old industrial dams mostly constructed during the colonial era. They are low-head structures that powered America’s original iron, textile, and saw mills. But after losing their industrial purpose, they remained to degrade the ecology of the region’s rivers. As picturesque entities, however, they have become bureaucratically cumbersome to remove. The low-head dam removals reviewed here include those along the Megunticook River in Maine, the Merrimack, Charles, Taunton, Cotley, Mill, Ipswich, Concord and Shawsheen Rivers in Massachusetts, and the Piscataqua, Bellamy, and Ashuelot Rivers in New Hampshire.

Keywords: Low-head dams; Old industrial dams; New England dams; Colonial era dams; Megunticook River; Merrimack River; Charles River; Taunton River; Cotley River; Mill River; Ipswich River; Concord River; Shawsheen River; Piscataqua River; Bellamy River; Ashuelot River (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81758-8_8

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