Couture Bros. Company

Long before the fish ladder, or even the Turners Falls – Gill bridge (which today connects Avenue ‘A’ with Route 2 in Gill), there was Montague Paper. Montague Paper, along with the John Russell Cutlery were the first two industries to begin operating in the new hydro power industrial community of Turners Falls. A short…

One of the Town of Montague’s “children” was the site of a company that would become the giant of the world-wide bamboo fishing rod manufacturing industry. The Montague City Rod Company is synonymous with high quality split bamboo fishing rods. The dedicated collector of vintage fishing equipment is willing to spend “big bucks” to acquire…

64 Image Pictorial Tour Ed has just completed an amazing set of 64 images narrating Montague’s 200th anniversary. I have never seen these before. It is fascinating to see the different contributors and themes, which were important to our neighbors from about 70 years ago! Ed has been careful to include much context and detail…

Is this your home town? Wanna see a bit of what was goin’ on in 1977-87. Click the image to visit 40 Millers Falls locations in our New Viewer. From there use the viewer’s arrow buttons to view the images with descriptions. Thanks for the visit . . . lotsa neat memories await. View this…

Turners Falls Power Canal A major player in the development of Turners Falls as an industrial “city” is the canal that supplied water to the various mills. Water coursed through their penstocks to turn the waterwheels which in turn ran geared linkages to operate machinery. Canal drained with the Keith paper mill along side. Each…

Explore this John Russell Cutlery poster in our new image viewer! The John Russell Cutlery was once the nation’s leading cutlery maker. They operated the “Green River Works” for more than 40 years at Greenfield and Deerfield’s “Cheapside district, at today’s location of Deerfield and Meridian Streets in Greenfield MA. This poster celebrates the new…