Area Information
Massena is located along the northern border of the county, just south of the St. Lawrence River and the Canada–US border. The population was 12,883 at the 2010 census.[
Massena was one of the first towns settled in St. Lawrence County, but was not incorporated until 1802. The town and its village are named after André Masséna, a general and Marshal to Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars.

The town is home to an Alcoa Aluminum plant, the longest continually operating aluminum facility in the world. Alcoa currently employs over 600 people at its facilities in Massena.
The Massena Power Canal (closed in 1958) connected the lower Grass River to the St. Lawrence River. A powerhouse were built in the early 1900s provided hydroelectric power to the town. The New York Power Authority now operates a hydroelectric power generating dam, the St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project, on the St. Lawrence River.
The town suffered natural disasters like the 1944 earthquake and the 1998 ice storm.
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