The village population has held fairly steady, at 500-600, over the hundreds of years it has been around.

It is interesting to note that even in this small village there was enough shoeing business to allow one of the two village blacksmiths to specialize as a farrier. The other blacksmith was able to focus on general smithing and foundry work

This map is a photocopy of a reprint (thus the quality) of the origional 1863 maps still housed in the Valley Falls Free Library.

Click on the image to see the detail of the Hoosic River area where the blacksmiths were located.