South Amherst Common

In the Middle Street and Shay Street quadrant:

989 South East Street in the early 1800s was the post office of this small neighborhood and had the Hiram Allen family living here. This is a federal era home. – FINDAGRAVE

1001 South East Street is the South Amherst School from 1900.

1025 South East Street is the Armstrong house from 1860. – FINDAGRAVE

In the Shays Street to Pomeroy Lane quadrant:

At 445 Shays Street is the Jonathan Dickinson home and barn from 1780 in Federal style. – FINDAGRAVE

At 324 Pomeroy Lane is the Enos Dickinson home and store / post office. – FINDAGRAVE

In the Middle Street to South East Street quadrant:

At 1055 South East Street is the house from 1742 in a Georgian style. – This is the house of Nathaniel Coleman

1067 South East Street is from 1770 and is now a parsonage for the South Congregational Church – FINDAGRAVE

1081 South East Street is from the 1800s – no history link

In the southeast section of the South East Street to Station Road quadrant:

At 1046 South East Street is the Munson Memorial Library

At 1066 South East Street is the South Amherst Congregational Church from 1825.

At 1072 South East Street is the Elisha Smith house from 1805. – FINDAGRAVE

In the northeast section of the South East Street to Station Road quadrant:

986 South East Street is the Amherst Town Farm and William Chaffee farm. The red barn to the far right is the town barn.

Outside the zone:

101 Middle Street has the Smith and Bridgman house from the early 1800s.

at 1230 South East Street is a Federal style building from about 1790

next to that is the Deacon Moody house at 1240 South East St

1871 Beers

Sanborn maps did not extend to here.

Main Street Cemetery (Easthampton)

Main Street Cemetery (Easthampton) is from 1845. It is on Main Street near Glendale Street. It has many old burials only because a much older cemetery was moved into here.

Catherine Wright is the oldest gravestone in Easthampton – Findagrave

Disinterments from the Old Center Cemetery

There was once an older cemetery in Easthampton and it was across from the Williston Seminary. It started about the 1750s and lasted to about 1865 when it was moved into this cemetery. Most of these are positioned around the holding tomb in the back of the cemetery. However, others are scattered around the cemetery with the other burials. The reason why is that the families were asked if they wanted to have their ancestor buried in a plot and if the family wanted to pay for one then they are found around the cemetery.

July 4 1861

FINDAGRAVE

Samuel Williston

Luther Clap

Seth Janes

Lucy Pomeroy Clap

Miriam Hannum

Luke Packard

Cremation area

CPA of Easthampton

Ford plot

Ferry family plot

Maj Jonathan Clap

and spouse Submit Strong Clap

Lieut Asahel Clark

Benjamin Clap

Nonotuck Park

Nonotuck Park is a large park in Easthampton Massachusetts. Two brooks flow through it – White Brook and Broad Brook. It has many features both within the park and just outside the park. Nonotuck Park was made in the year 1923.

Nonotuck Park –

Playgrounds

Toteman Nature Trail

FINDAGRAVE

the Frederick Kaczynski memorial is nearby

Baseball Fields

Pavilion

Galbraith Park –

Nashawanuck Pond – This is a reservoir since it is dammed and would not exist without being so. It was once called Upper Mill Pond.

External LINK on the pond

Brookside Cemetery – The cemetery is from about 1874. LINK

White Brook –

Mountain View School –

Daley FieldLINK

Broad Brook –

Neighborhood of the Park –

Water Lane – This street on the eastern side of Nashawanuck Pond had a boathouse, clubhouse, and a beach.

Lower Mill Pond

[Park in Millside Park.]

Lower Mill Pond is a reservoir in Easthampton that has old mills and workers’ homes along it. The Williston Mill is still there but has added to it the Hampton Mills. Along the western edge of Lower Mill Pond is the former West Boylston Mills. The first workers’ homes New City are bounded by Emerald Place, Ferry Street, and Parsons Street. The second workers’ homes Hampton Terrace are off Pleasant Street between the Pleasant Green and Terrace View. The third workers’ homes Everett Street Village are on Everett Street and Grant Street.

Williston Mill lasted from the 1840s to 1892

Easthampton Spinning from 1892 to 1899

West Boylston Mill from 1899 to 1933

Hampton Mill 1903

stop 0 – Lower Mill Pond

stop 1 – Back of the West Boylston Mills

millstartsendsbecomes
11902Advertising Corp of America
21931
31901Paragon Rubber / American Character Doll
41907mostly Lesnow
51912
61916Stanley Home Products
71916wastehouse
81916storehouse
9recent

stop 2 – Front of the West Boylston Mills

stop 3 – Hampton Terrace and Pleasant Green

Most of these homes are from 1920.

streetbuilt
Ridgewood Terrace1922
Pleasant Green East1920
Pleasant Green West1920
 Hampton Terrace1865 and 1903
Arlington Street1909
Berkeley Street1909 and 1910
Pleasant Street1865 and 1920
Terrace View1922

stop 4 – Williston Mill

1895

stop 5 – Hampton Mills

stop 6 – Lower Mill Pond Dam and the Broad Brook

The Broad Brook is dammed at this location. Thus Lower Mill Pond is a reservoir. After the power system was changed, the water is diverted into the tunnel to the right and meets the powerhouse there. In the 1800s the tunnel was far to the left and went under the Williston Mills.

stop 7 – New City

old homes on Ferry Street

The oldest homes are 1860s and are located on Ferry, Emerald, and Lincoln. When West Boylston arrived they made more in 1903 – on Harrison and Oakdale. Later in 1920 more were made – on Dartmouth, Exeter, Federal, and Clinton.

This schoolhouse started in 1902 as the Hampton Mills School but in 1908 became the
Parsons Street School. It was doubled in size in 1913.

Parsons Street Schoolhouse 1902
streetbuilthouses
Emerald Place1865
Harrison Avenue1903
Lincoln Street1865
Ferry Street1865
Oakdale Street1903
Dartmouth Street1917
Exeter Street1917
Federal Street1917
Clinton Street1917

stop 8 – Everett Street Village

This Everett Street area was constructed in 1917 to 1918 as homes for mill workers.

Sanborn
1884 to 1902all nothing
1910nothingnothingnothingNew City
1916WB MillsWB MillsFerry St MillsNew City

Skinner Silk Trail

The Skinner Silk Trail is a composite of the institutions that define the Skinner family of Holyoke and South Hadley. It follows the important sites that William Skinner and then Joseph Skinner created and lived in.

institutionlocationTOUR LINKExternal Link
WistariahurstBeech Street in HolyokeTOUR LINKlink
Skinner ChapelMaple Street in HolyokeTOUR LINK (last stop only)link
Holyoke Heritage State ParkAppleton Street in HolyokeTOUR LINKlink
Skinner State Parksummit of Mount Holyoke the mountainTOUR LINKlink
Mount Holyoke CollegeCollege Street in South HadleyTOUR LINKlink
Orchards Golf CourseSilverwood Terrace in South HadleyTOUR LINKlink
Orchards (home)Woodbridge Street in South HadleyTOUR LINKlink
Joseph Skinner MuseumWoodbridge Street in South HadleyTOUR LINKlink
Williamsburg Historical SocietyMain Street in WilliamsburgTOUR LINKlink
Skinner Silk MillTOUR LINKlink

Hadley

Hadley Center Historic District

Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District

Porter–Phelps–Huntington House

Hockanum Rural Historic District

North Hadley Historic District

Hopkins Academy

NEIGHBORHOOD

Hockanum (neighborhood)

North Hadley Dam – Lake Warner Dam – Mount Warner Rd near River Road 1918 – there were prior small dams

First Settlers Monument 1952

Hartsbrook Farm

CEMETERYLIST

CHURCHES

Parks and Lands

Podick – Cole – Szala Conservation Areas – 390 Sunderland Road – Eastman Brook and Swamp Brook flow through these areas – MAP

Chmura Road Trails – MAP – 105 Chmura Road – starts as a purple blaze

Conte Fish and Wildlife Refuge – MAP – off of 63 Moody Bridge Road

Dyer Conservation Area – MAP – 123 River Drive – part of the Porter Phelps Huntington homestead and museum – at the edge of the Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District

Mount Warner – MAP – take the Salamander Loop Trail – on Mount Warner Road near Stockwell Road

The Second Parish Neighborhood of Granby

The Second Parish Neighborhood of Granby was at the corner of West and Amherst Streets. There at the northwest corner was a meeting house.

130 West Street (at the NW corner of Amherst and West Streets) – Levi Smith house and tavern from the 1760s – Georgian style

129 West Street (at the SW corner of Amherst and West Streets) – Azor Moody and Clarissa Hayes – Azor Moody Store and Button Factory – early 1800s in Federal Style – later owned by Frederick Taylor who owned a paper mill on Aldrich Lake – his son Joseph Knight Taylor would died in the Civil War (FINDAGRAVE)

124 West Street (at the NE corner of Amherst and West Streets) – Timothy Smith and Hannah Moody – FINDAGRAVE

96 Amherst Street (at the SE corner of Amherst and West Streets) – Reverend Eli and Hannah Moody – this is the parsonage of the West Parish Church – 1830

86 Amherst Street (one house in from the SE corner of Amherst and West Streets) – Chester Smith and Sophia Clark – FINDAGRAVE – house is 1806

Notre Dame du Bon Conseil Church

Notre Dame du Bon Conseil Church is in Easthampton Massachusetts. This church was founded on November 18 1906 with its first church at 92 Union Street. The rectory was at 68 Union. The parish was founded in 1904. In 1912, the school was at 7 Center Street.

The church is now at 33 Pleasant Street having moved there in 1922. The George Hendrick house was the rectory. This was 27 Pleasant Street.

In 1929 the school is at 35 Center and 72 Union. The Convent is at 35 Center and the nuns are from the Sisters of Saint Joseph. In 1934 the convent is at 68 Union Street where the rectory was. It is called the Saint Anne’s Convent.

pastorstartsendsburial
Joseph I Lord19061915burial
Eugene Baril1915burial
J P Bourassa1920burial
Ambroise Buissonat least 1929at least 1934burial
burial
Eugene St Martin1938burial
burial
Fernand Royat least 1950burial

stop 1 – Notre Dame du Bon Conseil Church

stop 2 – Notre Dame du Bon Conseil Convent

Built in 1948 to replace one on Union Street which was from 1908. That 1908 was a house that served as both school and convent. In the 1980s this 1948 convent would become the rectory.

stop 3 – Notre Dame du Bon Conseil School

Built in 1948 to replace one on Union Street which was from 1908.

Sanborn map analysis:

1895 map

1902 map

1910 map

1916 map of Union Street

1916 map has nothing on Pleasant Street.