Pawtucket Falls (Massachusetts)

42°39′02.25″N 71°19′38.42″W / 42.6506250°N 71.3273389°W / 42.6506250; -71.3273389

Pawtucket Falls and Pawtucket Dam viewed from Pawtucket Gatehouse in Lowell in May 2012
Pawtucket Falls viewed from the same location during the 2006 New England flood
Pawtucket Falls around 1896

Pawtucket Falls is a waterfall on the Merrimack River at Lowell, Massachusetts. The waterfall and rapids below it drop a total of 32 feet in a little under a mile, and was an important fishing ground for the Pennacook Indians in pre-colonial times.

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