The Town of Montague, MA is made up of five villages – Lake Pleasant, Millers Falls, Montague Center, Montague City and Turners Falls – and is nestled along the Connecticut River in the upper Pioneer Valley.  With about 8,500 residents, Montague offers comfortable residential living, while simultaneously experiencing an exciting arts revival. Whether you’re looking for easy access to outdoor recreation like fishing, skiing, boating, biking, and bird watching, or for a funky arts scene, you’ll find it in the villages of Montague.

Montague is home to the schools in the Gill-Montague Regional School District and the public (but by application only) Franklin County Technical School. Also located in Montague is the renown Hallmark Institute of Photography, a ten-month in-residence photography school.

Each of Montague’s villages has its own personality.  In Turners Falls, for instance, the acclaimed River Culture Project has brought incredible and vibrant art and artisans to the area.  The main street in Turners Falls is home to the Great Falls Discovery Center, Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Shea Theater, historic Carnegie Library, and a variety of restaurants from The Rendezvous – recently voted Best Neighborhood Bar – to gourmet Ristorante DiPaolo.

A more rural village, Montague Center, has dozens of farms and farm stands, and hosts the annual Montague Old Home Days, which features live music, a road race, carnival games, food and local crafters.  Montague Center is also home to the Montague Book Mill, a used bookstore housed in a circa-1842 gristmill on the banks of the Sawmill River.  The bookstore is surrounded by quirky shops, artists, and restaurants, and boasts that it has books you don’t need, in a place you can’t find.

Montague is a small town with a big personality!