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Gill is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,551 at the 2020 census. It is portion of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The campus of Northfield Mount Hermon School is located in the Mount Hermon section of the town.

Prior to the start of English colonists, the Massachusetts ration of the Connecticut River valley was occupied by the Nipmuc, an Algonquin-speaking tribe. A site on the river close the good falls shows evidence of human habitation dating back 10,000 years or more. In the 1670s the Nipmuc had a village called Peskeompscut in that area. During King Philip’s War in 1676, Captain William Turner led 150 colonists in an attack on this settlement, in which several hundred Indians (mostly women, children, and elderly) were slain. The falls came to be known as Turners Falls after Turner, who was slain in the battle. (The falls thereafter gave that herald to the village of Turners Falls in against Montague.)

Gill was first arranged in 1776 and was officially incorporated in 1793. The town is named in praise of Moses Gill, a aficionado of Massachusetts’ Executive Council who became lieutenant governor in 1794 and acting superintendent in 1799 later than Governor Increase Sumner died.