Overview of dams at Wadsworth
The Coginchaug River powered four mills in the Wadsworth area. An impoundment slightly behind Big Falls powered a cotton mill, but only some stonework and concrete water-structures remain; The Pist...
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Powder mill falls
The Coginchaug cascades over three nineteenth-century dams as it flows through the park. (Big Falls itself was leveraged for waterpower, too.) This is the middle of the dams, and the easiest to mis...