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=== Economic progress === | |||
The Appalachian watershed provided almost unlimited opportunity for building of mills and dams to serve them. In Massachusetts, | |||
* dams | |||
* eminent domain | |||
* mills | |||
* Mill Dam Act of 1795|Massachusetts law that granted dam owners rights to build dams that flooded farmland, forcing them to accept "fair compensation" for the lost land, without possibility of stopping the dam itself | |||
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