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Highland Ponds and the DAR State Forest

Highland Ponds and the DAR State Forest are great places to visit and I have been there often.

Lower Highland Lake was made by the CCC in the 1930s. The dam was a 1840 mill dam that was improved. It was owned by the Hampshire Water Power Company.

Upper Highland Lake has a mill dam from 1873. It was renovated by the CCC also.

The DAR State Forest was made in 1929 when the DAR gave the state a forest. The CCC built Moore Hill Road in 1933.

Plainville Cemetery

Plainville Cemetery – FINDAGRAVE – was formed in 1802 along the eastern edge of Hadley near its border with Amherst. It is the second youngest of the Protestant cemeteries in the town with only the Russellville Cemetery being younger.

FINDAGRAVE

Charles Cummings

The Allen family stone is a cenotaph for the children. FINDAGRAVE

Isaac Hawley – first burial – FINDAGRAVE – near the Kellogg stone

Zebulon Taylor has a zinc monument.

Howard family

Henry Howard 1862 in New Bern

Charles Howard 1864 in Andersonville

Daniel Howard 1864 in Portsmouth Virginia

Cowles family

Rollin Cowles died at Cold Harbor Virginia in 1864 and his brother Silas Cowles would die two weeks later. Both would die due to the Civil War.

Neighborhood

127 Mount Warner is the former schoolhouse (in the distance across the road to the east)

134 Mount Warner is the Cowles homestead from 1839.

103 Mount Warner is the Hawley homestead from 1850.

86 Mount Warner Rd is the Eli Hawley homestead from 1839.

Tobacco farmland surrounds the cemetery in all directions.

Warner Silk Mill Canal

Beers 1871 map

Enoch Jewett built a dam across the Broughton Meadow Brook.

Warner Silk Mill Canal became the Leonard Silk Canal from 1889 onward.

William Skinner had built and lived in the 584 Elm Street home at the SE corner of Federal, South Main, Nonotuck, and Elm Streets. He lived there from 1850 to 1859.

Sanborn 1884 map

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1895 map

not on the 1902 map since in the late 1890s a fire destroyed the mill

Northampton Paper Mill Canal

The Northampton Paper Mill made the canal in 1836.

It started as the William Butler Paper Mill. Then it became the Northampton Paper Company. Then the William Clark Mill. Vernon Paper Mill was later called the E E Wood Cutlery Works and then the Roger’s Cutlery. This was located in Paper Mill Village. The 1860 mill is at 122 Federal Street.

Beers 1871 map
Beers 1871

The William Butler Boarding House on Milton Street is from the 1820s. The Northampton Paper Mill Superintendent’s House is from the 1830s.

Butler Paper Mill17861835
Northampton Paper Mill18351843
Clark Paper Mill18431869
Vernon Paper Mill18691886
Northampton Paper Mill18861889
EE Wood Cutlery1889
Roger’s Cutlery
Macris NTH.442 gives the years of existence for these mills.

Sanborn 1884 map as the Vernon

Sanborn 1889 map as the Wood

Sanborn 1895 map as the Wood

Sanborn 1902 map as the Rogers

Sanborn 1910 map as the Rogers

Sanborn 1915 map as the Rogers