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Connecticut’s Industrial Monument

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    • Stop 0: The Casting Shed
    • Stop 1: Casting Arch
    • Stop 2: Salamander
    • Stop 3: Tuyere Arch
    • Stop 4: Hercules Turbine
    • Stop 5: Leffel Turbine
    • Stop 6: Office Building
    • Stop 7: River and Slag Heap
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    • Falls Village – Ames
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    • Ore Hill Mine
    • Roxbury

Falls Village – Amesville

Amesville is located near the Great Falls of the Housatonic River near Falls Village in the Town of Canaan Connecticut. Horatio Ames made the largest Civil War cannon—which weighed in at 19,500 pounds.

Falls Village, Ames
Falls Village – Ames

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  • WELCOME!
  • Tour
  • Stop 0: The Casting Shed
  • Stop 1: Casting Arch
  • Stop 2: Salamander
  • Stop 3: Tuyere Arch
  • Stop 4: Hercules Turbine
  • Stop 5: Leffel Turbine
  • Stop 6: Office Building
  • Stop 7: River and Slag Heap
  • Videos
  • Pictures
  • Falls Village – Ames
  • Blowing Engines
  • Buena Vista
  • Charcoal
  • Ore Hill Mine
  • Roxbury