Quequechan River (Fall River, Massachusetts)

 river, place with historical importance

The namesake of Fall River (it is a Wampanoag word meaning "falling waters"), the Quequechan was the impetus of the industrialization of the city, offering water power to the mills that line its shores (and, in the case of its falls, cover them).

The river flows from the South Watuppa through the city, bisecting it. Near downtown, where the topography begins to fall off rapidly, the waters became quicker, falling in a series of waterfalls down to the Taunton River, where it still feeds today through pipes. Much of the river actually flows through pipes; under the Brayton Avenue Interchange and Route 24, and then under Interstate 195, Government Center (which was built upon the site of the old City Hall, the reason the river was piped in the first place) and the Metacomet Mill down to a small stretch between the State Pier and the former American Printing Company/Firestone mills.

Today there is talk of daylighting some of the river towards its end, west of Route 79.