Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts
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Newton Upper Falls is a village of Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States. The area borders Needham, Massachusetts.
Newton Upper Falls is home to the famous Hemlock Gorge and Echo Bridge, a large aqueduct turned pedestrian walkway over the Charles River. It is said to be the only village that has retained its original name from when the area was founded in the 1600s. It has over 150 homes on the historic register despite its small area.
Sullivan Avenue, an unpaved private road in Newton Upper Falls is the last remaining portion of the ancient highway connecting Boston and Cambridge with Newton and points west in the 1600s (back then it was called Cambridge Village). Also on Sullivan Avenue is a famous pothole (not the kind you avoid with your car) but a geological anomaly where a boulder that was originally pushed down the cliff by a now extinct waterfall got caught and became round. The boulder spun around in its place carving a shaft over thousands of years. Since then half the shaft collapsed and now all that can be seen is half of a cylindrical shaft through the cliff at the corner of Sullivan and Eliot Streets.
Newton Upper Falls has a more blue collar feel compared to the other, more wealthy Newton neighborhoods. Dunn Gaherin's, at the corner of Elliot and Chestnut Streets, is a popular neighborhood pub.
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