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Fall River

About Fall River

88,945 in city
7,609,358 in metro
80 km² (31 mi²)
32.9188002926 m
Fall River is a port and industrial city located at the head of Mount Hope Bay, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Boston. It was founded in 1659 by settlers from the Plymouth Colony and chartered as a city in 1854. From the 1870s until the 1920s it was the largest center of cotton texitle manufacture in the United States. Although the city's importance declined after 1929 and the Great Depression, many industries remain. The USS Massachusetts, a World War II battleship, is berthed on the waterfront as a war memorial. The city's name is derived from the Indian name of a local river, the Quequechan, which means "'falling water."

Metro Cities

Acton, Amesbury, Arlington, Attleboro, Auburndale, Avon, Ayer, Beverly, Boston, Braintree, Bristol, Brockton, Brookline, Burlington, Cambridge, Canton, Central Falls, Chelsea, Concord, Cranston, Cumberland, Danvers, Dover, Durham, East Greenwich, East Providence, Everett, Exeter, Fall River, Fitchburg, Foxborough, Framingham, Gloucester, Goffstown, Haverhill, Holliston, Hudson, Hudson, Hull, Jamestown, Laconia, Lakeville, Lawrence, Leominster, Londonderry, Lowell, Lynn, Lynnfield, Malden, Manchester, Marblehead, Marlborough, Maynard, Medford, Melrose, Meredith, Methuen, Middleborough, Middleton, Milford, Milton, Nashua, Natick, Needham, New Bedford, Newburyport, Newport, Newton, North Andover, North Attleboro, North Hampton, North Kingstown, North Providence, Northbridge, Norwood, Pawtucket, Peabody, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Providence, Quincy, Randolph, Revere, Rockport, Salem, Salisbury, Shrewsbury, Smithfield, Somerville, South Kingstown, Southbridge, Sudbury, Taunton, Wakefield, Waltham, Warwick, Watertown, West Warwick, Westminster, Weymouth, Wilmington, Wilton, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn, Woonsocket, Worcester

No. of Buildings

No. Current status
57 All Buildings
47
existing
10
demolished

Tallest Buildings

# Building Height Year
1 Durfee Mill No. 2 108 ft 1871
2 Durfee Mill No. 1 108 ft 1866
3 Union Mill No. 2 90 ft 1865
4 Union Mill No. 1 87 ft 1859
5 Metacomet Mill 84 ft 1847

Building types

No. Type
40 low-rise building
8 high-rise building
5 church
2 mast (pole)
1 bridge
1 mast (framework)