Brochures for Self-Guided River Tours

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Leeds Center to Hotel Bridge

Florence: Riverside Dr. to Meadow St. Bridge

Northampton: Paradise Pond to South St.

1874 Mill River Flood Disaster

We have three walking tours:

The Hidden Mill River from Paradise Pond to Downtown Northampton
The Village of Florence
The Village of Leeds

We have one tour of the Path of the 1874 Flood that is several miles long and requires a bicycle or car.

MAPS

The following are a few maps from the Mill River watershed, some technical, some historical (many are available for download). We hope to keep this collection growing, if you know of a great map we could feature here please let us know.

Featured Maps

2011

The Mill River Watershed

The Mill River Watershed. A map created by Hillary King from MassGis data and her own work with ArcGIS software.

1895

The first US Geological Survey topographic map of the watershed.

Historical Maps

Courtesy of the Northampton Dept. of Public Works and the Forbes Library.

1700

A sketch map from G.R.J. Cestre, a Sorbonne professor who wrote about the geographical evolution of Northampton while he was a visiting professor at Smith College in the 1960s.
Download a PDF of the 1700 Northampton Map

1790

A map that the 19th-century historian J.R. Trumbull made, delineating the home lots of first settlers in Northampton
Download a PDF of the 1790 Northampton Map