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Fall River is known for the Lizzie Borden case, the Fall River cult murders, Portuguese culture, its numerous 19th-century textile mills and Battleship Cove, home of the world's largest collection of World War II naval vessels (including the battleship USS Massachusetts). Fall River has its city hall located over an interstate highway.
Fall River’s history is linked to the slave trade, but the city was also a hub of anti-slavery activity. These six homes harbored runaway slaves. Fall River was an Underground Railroad junction.
North Main Street, 1910. For much of its history, the city of Fall River, Massachusetts has been defined by the rise and fall of its cotton textile industry. From its beginnings as a rural outpost of the Plymouth Colony, the city grew to become the largest textile producing center in the United States during the 19th century, with over one hundred mills in operation by 1920.
Lights Out: The Carl Drew and Robin Murphy killings. The gruesome killings of Doreen Levesque, Barbara Raposa and Karen Marsden in Fall River in 1979 and 1980 fed into a moral panic about Satanism ...
The following properties in Fall River, Massachusetts are listed on the Registered Historic Places. This is a subset of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, Massachusetts .
The word "underground" is used because there is a history of resistance movements under harsh regimes where the term underground was employed to refer to the necessary secrecy of the resisters. For example, the Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th-century United States attempted to escape ...
Shannon Raposo and James A. Primo III, seen here in this Nov. 17, 2023 photo, are owners of the new Primo on Water Street, set to open on the Fall River waterfront by early 2024.
Women's Union Building (1909), Rock Street. The Lower Highlands Historic District encompasses one of the oldest residential areas of Fall River, Massachusetts.The district is roughly bounded by Cherry, Main, Winter, and Bank Streets, and is located just east of the Downtown Fall River Historic District and directly south of the Highlands Historic District.