Valley Falls’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Valley Falls. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1871, industrialist James Thompson built a textile mill in the village. Nearly all village residents worked in the mill and schoolchildren ran home when the mill's lunch whistle sounded. After its height of operation in the 1970s, it entered a decade of decline. The mill had been vacant for at least 10 years when it went up in flames in the early morning hours on April 22, 2009.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Valley Falls’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Valley Falls’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewValley Falls, N.Y. 1887, 1887: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Valley Falls, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Valley Falls is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Valley Falls has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Valley Falls Historic District in Pittstown, 0.1 miles away.
Valley Falls and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Valley Falls, N.Y. 1887 (1887) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.