Glen Falls

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Glen Falls is a small waterfall located on Ellicott Creek in the village of Williamsville, New York. The hydropower provided by the falls made it an ideal site for a number of early watermills used to grind grist and to power sawmills.^[1]

One of the earliest settlers of what is now Williamsville, Jonas Williams, owned two mills on opposite sides of Ellicott Creek.^[1] The name of these mills, Williams Mills, eventually transformed into the name of the village in which the falls is located, Williamsville. The falls has a vertical drop of approximately 30 feet.^[2] The vertical drop is part of the Onondaga Escarpment, a portion of which runs through Williamsville. Today, the falls forms part of the eastern border of Glen Park.

Glen Falls has a very similar name to the city of Glens Falls, which is located in the far eastern portion of New York State, over 200 miles from Williamsville.

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1. ^ ^{a b} History of the Town of Amherst, NY (English). Amherst Museum (1997). Retrieved on 2008-03-03.
2. ^ Waymark for Glen Falls - Williamsville, NY (English). Retrieved on 2008-03-03.

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• A 1909 photograph of Glen Falls
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