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Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
Great Stone Dam
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Great Stone Dam, MA-28, Lawrence, MA 01843, USA

The Great Stone Dam was built between 1845 and 1848 on the site of Bodwell's Falls on the Merrimack River in what became Lawrence, Massachusetts. The dam has a length of 900 feet and a height of 35 feet .Lawrence is in Essex County, Massachusetts, approximately 25 miles north of Boston and only a few miles south of the New Hampshire border , located in the Merrimack Valley. The dam is 11 miles downstream from Lowell and is visible from Route 28 in Lawrence and from behind the Pacific Paper Mill .The dam feeds two canals . At their peak, the North Canal provided up to 13,000 horsepower and the South Canal 2,000 horsepower; the Essex Company sold mill rights to its water power, allowing mills to use the energy provided. The North Canal existed before the dam, but was redeveloped both to better feed the mills and to accommodate the 30-foot drop caused by the dam. About a mile in length, the canal had a guard lock and three lift locks with mitered gates. The locks were abandoned in the 1960s.Today the dam is the site of a hydroelectric plant, completed in 1981, which is owned by Enel . and the Lawrence Hydroelectric Associates.
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