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The canal ran behind where the photographer who took the picture of the grist mill was standing, on what is now Mill Street. The area where those mills stood along the lower end of the canal is now a public park, the
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Usage declined with the arrival of railroad service in the area in 1849, and the canal ceased to carry boat traffic in 1858. After 1858, the canal only supplied water power to the neighboring mills, of which there were six at the time. After the mills were converted to electric power, the lower
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Burleigh in the sidebar shows some of those
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History of the Town of
Rockingham, Vermont, Including the Villages of Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Rockingham, Cambridgeport, and Bartonsville, 1907-1957, with Family Genealogies
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Rockingham, Vermont: Including the Villages of Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Rockingham, Cambridgeport and Bartonsville, 1753-1907, with Family Genealogies
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Connecticut River navigable in 1791 and spent 10 years building nine locks and a dam to bypass 52-foot-high (16 m)
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