The 35-acre park features the 77-foot Great Galls waterfall, the second largest in the East behind Niagara Falls in Western New York. The Great Falls was harnessed after the American Revolution to power new industries and played a key role in shaping the nation’s Industrial Revolution and building the U.S. economy.
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