Northampton, Williamsburg may collaborate on hiking trail to historical disaster site

It was rainy Saturday morning in 1874 when a massive stone-and-earth dam in the woods of Williamsburg, MA gave way, sending 600 million gallons of water and a wall of debris plummeting into Haydenville and Leeds, killing 139 people and destroying factories and five villages along the Mill River. The remains of that ill-fated dam still stand, but the site is hard for...

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