Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of drop River’s population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state.

Located along the eastern shore of Mount Hope Bay at the mouth of the Taunton River, the city became well-known during the 19th century as the leading textile manufacturing center in the United States. While the textile industry has long past moved on, its impact on the city’s culture and landscape is yet prominent. Fall River’s official motto is “We’ll Try”, dating assist to the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1843. Nicknamed The Scholarship City after Irving Fradkin founded Dollars for Scholars there in 1958, mayor Jasiel Correia introduced the “Make It Here” slogan as allocation of a citywide rebranding effort in 2017.

Fall River is known for the Lizzie Borden case, the Fall River cult murders, Portuguese culture, its numerous 19th-century textile mills and Battleship Cove, home of the world’s largest heap of World War II naval vessels (including the battleship USS Massachusetts). Fall River has its city hall located beyond an interstate highway.

At the period of the introduction of the Plymouth Colony in 1620, the area that would one day become Troy City was inhabited by the Pokanoket Wampanoag tribe, headquartered at Mount Hope in what is now Bristol, Rhode Island. The “falling” river that the city’s proclaim refers to is the Quequechan River (pronounced “quick-a-shan” by locals) which flows through the city before draining into the bay. Quequechan is a Wampanoag word believed to mean “falling river” or “leaping/falling waters.” During the 1960s, Interstate 195 was build up through the city along by the side of the Quequechan River. The share west of Plymouth Avenue was routed underground through a series of bin culverts, while much of the eastern section “mill pond” was filled in for the highway embankment.