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Fuller Cemetery

Jonathan Burr – FINDAGRAVE

Pease family

Footstones

Fence and Row Signs

Ware is defined by Quabbin Reservoir

Cemeteries

Aspen Grove Cemetery

Quabbin Park Cemetery

Mount Carmel Cemetery

Saint Mary’s Cemetery

other

Church Street Historic District

Grenville Park – 1907

Quabbin Reservoir

Gilbert Mill Canal

Stevens Woolen Mill Canal

Otis Company Canals of Ware

Westhampton Center Cemetery FINDAGRAVE is on land donated by the Reverend Enoch Hale (minister of the Westhampton Congregational Church). His house is at the intersection of Cemetery Road and South Street. The parsonage and the church are nearby. Hale at Findagrave

This cemetery contains the former burials at the Theophilus Edwards Family Tomb (Findagrave) and the Kingsley Cemetery Site. Those prior cemeteries seem to have been made in the 1770s and the Center Cemetery in 1790. Westhampton became a town in 1778. (The first settlers were from 1762.)

Westhampton was made a town in 1778. It was settled in 1762.

Westhampton Town Common 1790

Westhampton Town Hall 1840

Westhampton Congregational Church 1829

Westhampton Center Cemetery

The Burial Grounds of Westhampton throughout its History

Russellville Cemetery is from 1826. It is in the Russellville neighborhood of Hadley. John and Daniel Russell were brothers. John at FINDAGRAVE and Daniel at FINDAGRAVE. William Montague was also an early settler and fought in the Revolutionary War – FINDAGRAVE

John Russell dies in 1864 – FINDAGRAVE

The John Russell house from 1826 is close by to the south.

Mount Holyoke Range

Springfield Classical High School

Szot Park

Chicopee City Hall was finished in 1871 as first a town hall. In 1890, when Chicopee turned into a city, the former town hall became a city hall. Much of the construction was done by workers from the Charles McClallan firm.

The tower is modelled after the Palazzo Vecchio in Italy.

Chicopee High School with Academy and Bonneville Streets

The Chicopee High School that was used from 1921 to into the 21st century is still in place bounded by Front, Academy, and Bonneville Streets. It is on land that was used by the Assumption Church until it burned in 1916. Plans were drawn up but the World War stalled all.