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Charles River Path — Lower Falls Riverbank
A short, pretty riverside walk past old mill dams where the Charles drops toward Wellesley.
Newton Lower Falls
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Mill Village Architecture Walk
A self-guided loop past 19th-century mill housing, a 1811 church, and the old paper works.
Lower Falls is unusually intact for a New England mill village: worker housing, the mill owner’s house, and St. Mary’s church all still stand within a few blocks of the dam that started it all.
Download the self-guided map from the Newton History Museum site, or just wander — the interpretive signs along Concord Street cover the essentials. About forty-five minutes.
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Concord Street, Newton Lower Falls, MA 02462
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