Wilbraham

CANALS

Power Canals of the Chicopee River

Collins Canal

CHURCHES

St. Cecilia Parish 1951 – 42 Main St – Rectory: 7 Maple St – www.saintceciliawilbraham.org

Grace Union Church – 8 Chapel Street – Grace Union Church Parsonage – 24 Maple

Wilbraham Methodist Episcopal Church – Glendale Methodist Episcopal Society Church – 940 Glendale Rd 1868

CEMETERIES

Adams Cemetery – Tinkham Road off of Main Street – 1736 for Springfield’s Fourth Precinct – Wilbraham Old Yard – Center Cemetery – Adams Cemetery Hearse House is now at 450 Main Street – Adams House (for deacon) is at 685 Main Street – Elizabeth Cockril – first burial – FINDGRAVE – in the Afro-American section there is Caesar Mirick and Joseph Cutt

Woodland Dell Cemetery – on 17V Woodland Dell Street near Main – 1851 first burial is Louisa Wright and officially opens in 1858

Glendale Cemetery – 376V Glendale Road near Monson Road – 1787 – war memorial just outside the grounds and a bell – this is a former Baptist cemetery – Caleb Stebbins is the first burial

East Wilbraham Cemetery – 1779 – 3244R Boston Road near Three River Road and Silver Road – Old Sodom Cemetery – this is a former Baptist cemetery

OTHER

Academy Historic District – Wilbraham – Monson Academy Alumni Memorial Chapel (Wilbraham Methodist Church) – 404 Main Street from 1867

Crane Park – Wilbraham Civil War Memorial – 1894 – 322 Main Street

Wilbraham Old Meetinghouse and Hearse House – Wilbraham Old Methodist Meeting House (Wilbraham Historical Commission Museum) 1793 – 450 Main Street – Wilbraham Hearse House – Adams Cemetery Hearse House

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