Army Corps of Engineers presentation - Birch Hill Dam

Program Type:

Presentation Followed by Conversation

Age Group:

Tweens (10-13), Teens (12-18), Adults (18+)
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Program Description

Museum on Main Street

Crossroads is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and state humanities councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.

Event Details

Learn about flood control along the Millers River.

Birch Hill Dam is located on the Miller's River in South Royalston, Mass., and is part of a network of flood damage reduction projects (including sister dam Tully Lake) on tributaries of the Connecticut River. Completed at a cost of $4 million, Birch Hill Dam was one the first dams the Corps of Engineers built in New England to reduce damage caused by floods like those that devastated Athol and Orange in 1936 and 1938.

Join us for this interesting look at historical flood events of 1936 and 1938, the reason Tully and the Birch Hill Dam exist, and way we are so lucky to have them.

Free and open to the public.

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