Bellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States.

[7] Later the settlers renamed the town for Colonel Benjamin Bellows, a landowner,[8][9] but kept the name Great Falls for the waterfall, a translation of their Abenaki name, "Kitchee pontegu.

River traffic declined after railroads were built to the Connecticut Valley in 1849, and by 1858 the canal had become used exclusively for water power to run the paper mills which became established there.

A fish ladder allows salmon to continue upstream at times when the bulk of the river's flow is diverted to the canal.

Two railroads converged in 1849 at Bellows Falls, helping it develop into a major mill town.

By 1859, a woolen textile mill was operating, in addition to factories that produced furniture, marble, sashes and blinds, iron castings, carriages, cabinetware, rifles, harness, shoe pegs and organs.

[15] The years of industry created wealth in the town, and substantial Victorian houses and mercantile buildings were constructed.

Bellows Falls today attracts visitors through heritage tourism based on its historic Victorian architecture.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), all land.