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park	my link	location	year started
Emerson Wight Playground	LINK		1908
Emily Bill Park	LINK	Franklin Street	1912
Gurdon Bill Park	LINK	Liberty Street	1916
Nathan Bill Park	LINK	on Plumtree Road near Allen Street	1942 (named 1947 from Nathan Bill Playground)
Ruth Elizabeth Park	LINK	Walnut and Hickory Streets	1922

person	FINDAGRAVE	relative to Nathan	died
Gurdon Bill	FINDAGRAVE	father	1916
Emily Denison Bill	FINDAGRAVE	mother	1879
Nathan Denison Bill	FINDAGRAVE	self	1947
Ruth Elizabeth Wight Bill	FINDAGRAVE	wife	1950
Emerson Wight	FINDAGRAVE	father-in-law	1890

Acorn Street Park

North Branch Tributary Park holds part of a tributary of the North Branch Brook which is itself a tributary of the Mill River.

Breckwood Park – at juncture of Breckwood Blvd and Breckwood Circle

Gunn Square – Westford Ave

G Frank Adams Park – Wilbraham Road near Dearborn

Schools in Easthampton

Easthampton High School 1864 at 1 Northampton Street and then 1912 to 1939 Park Primary School and then Memorial Hall

Easthampton High School and Park Primary School – 4 Park Street 1912 – later Pepin School

Center Union School – 9 School Street in Easthampton

Maple Street School

Easthampton High School

Mountain View School

Holyoke High School started in 1852 at the Gallaudet Block on High Street.

Then the school was at the Chapin Block at the corner of Race and Dwight using the Parsons Hall as a hall for functions.

Then it was at the corner of Suffolk and Elm Streets.

The 4th location was at the Beech Street location.

The current location is the fifth location of Holyoke High School. (LOCATION) The first location was on Elm Street were the Holyoke Juvenile Court is located. It lasted from 1862 to 1898. The second location was between Beech Street and Pine and between Sargeant and Hampshire. This lasted from 1898 to 1964. In 1964 this newest high school was built. 38 acres were taken from parkland to construct the HHS grounds.

Sanborn map analysis:

by 1862 the Elm Street School:

Sanborn 1884 map

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1895 map

in the Beech Street area:

Sanborn 1915 map

Sanborn 1949 map

Sanborn 1956 map

Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church

Shady Lawn Mental and General Sanitarium