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Mill River Historic District is a historic district encompassing the traditional center of government and a former industrial mill village along the Konkapot River in the village of Mill River in New Marlborough, Massachusetts. The district is roughly bounded by Main Street and River Church, Southfield, Clayton, School, and Hayes Hill Roads.
Borderland State Park is an American history and nature preserve with public recreational features located in the towns of Easton and Sharon, Massachusetts.The state park encompasses 1,843 acres (746 ha) surrounding the Ames Mansion, which was built in 1910.
Konkapot River. The Konkapot River is a 22.1-mile-long (35.6 km) [1] river in southwestern Massachusetts and northern Connecticut. It is a tributary of the Housatonic River, not to be confused with the smaller Konkapot Brook in Stockbridge (another Housatonic tributary). The river was named for Captain John Konkapot, an Indian chief. [2]
The river begins at Savage Pond, near the corner of High and Chestnut Streets, in Plainville, Massachusetts.From there, it flows generally south through North Attleborough, Attleboro and Seekonk before entering Rhode Island and flowing through Pawtucket and East Providence where it flows over the Omega Dam into the Seekonk River.
Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge was established in 1997 to conserve, protect and enhance the abundance and diversity of native plant, fish and wildlife species and the ecosystems on which they depend throughout the 7,200,000-acre (29,000 km 2) Connecticut River watershed.
The Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge is a nature preserve on Nantucket Island and is managed by the Trustees of Reservations.It encompasses miles of beaches, the largest red cedar woodland in New England and Great Point Light. [1]
Kent Falls State Park is a public recreation area located in the town of Kent, Connecticut, within the Litchfield Hills region of the southern Berkshires.The state park is home to Kent Falls, a series of waterfalls on Falls Brook, a tributary of the Housatonic River. [3]
Popponesset Spit is a spit between Popponesset Bay and Nantucket Sound.The barrier peninsula extends for about 1.0 mile (1.6 km) from the community of Popponesset in Mashpee on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and is part of the coastline known as Popponesset Beach.