Satucket River

It is fed by the Poor Meadow Brook that takes in the flow of the Shumatuscacant River which drains into Abington and Whitman.

This small dam co-existed with a water wheel and generated electricity to power the cotton gin.

Later in the early 1900s the river served as an important role in the economy of the town and the Carver Cotton Gin Mill.

On certain occasions fish have been found to swim upstream from the ocean and stripers have been caught out of this water along otters and many other animals.

The Taunton and Nemasket Rivers contain 45 species of fish and support the largest alewife run in Massachusetts.

[8] In the past the river was rich with alewives that would travel upstream to spawn in the slow moving waters.

Some of these weirs still exist today and are simply miniature dams made of rocks shaped in a V position that face up stream.