Little Falls

Little Falls is a city in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 4,946 at the 2010 census.. The city is built on both sides of the Mohawk River, at a point at which rapids had impeded travel upriver. Transportation through the valley was improved by construction of the Erie Canal, completed in 1825 and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River.

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Built in the early 1970s ….

The then new Little Falls cloverleaf was designed to connect to downtown via a new arterial highway that originally threatened Moss Island but was later moved slightly farther to the south after community protests, protecting this historic and unique island. Notice the deep cuts into the Marcellus shale, with it's deep black residues that once contained petroleum millions of years ago.