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A British-owned company chartered in 1791 to make the Connecticut River navigable at this place spent 10 years building 9 locks and a dam around the Great Falls, which were 52 feet high. After the railroad arrived in 1849, river traffic declined and the canal was used only for water power.
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North Walpole, New Hampshire · United States
