One of the sites to see in old Woronoco is Salmon Falls, a very important piece of Native American history in Russell.  The bridge here was deemed unsafe and the present metal bridge connecting Valley View and the Beehive was set to be temporary….it is still the only way in and out of this area. The lower industrial village was named Woronoco after a local tribe, and the local cascades were once called Salmon Falls, because Atlantic salmon were observed and captured there. Strathmore Paper Company manufactured high-quality bond papers at this location until it was taken over by International Paper and then decommissioned. Strathmore was originally purchased by Horace A. Moses in 1904. Moses, later co-founder of Junior Achievement, was a visionary social engineer as well as an industrialist who developed Woronoco as a model company town with housing of high standards and buildings accommodating a wide variety of community activities. The factory, and the town it created, were based upon his journey to the factory town of Strathmore, Scotland.

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