Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church

Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church is at the corner of Bliss Road. The Saint Mary’s Parish started in 1868 and was dedicated in 1870. It was a mission church only from that point until 1931. The mission church is at the right of the image below. It is across the street for the eastern edge of the cemetery. It is listed as R. C. Ch. that is Roman Catholic Church. The structure that was used was the Lawton School which had been moved from its prior location to the William Street location. It was used up to 1924 when a portable church was made on Bliss Street.

1931

The church was built in 1931 in the Gothic Revival style. The first mass was on Christmas Day of that year. John Donohue was the architect.

Springfield Roman Catholic Bishop’s House is from the same year in the Colonial Revival style.

EXTERNAL WEB SITE and they are at 519 Longmeadow Street.

The Saint Mary’s School opened in September of 1967.

Social Center 2011

Lady’s Chapels

Rectory

Inside

Southwick

Southwick

Ranch Golf Club and Southwick Country Club

Southwick Public Library 1892 – 475 College Hwy

Farmington Canal

Southwick Inn 1906 – 479 College Hwy

General Cigar Company Tobacco Barns – 686 College Hwy

Charles Gillett Cigar Factory and Warehouse – 215 College Hwy – Gillett, Charles J. Cigar Factory Tobacco Barn from 1880 – same address – Cigar Factory and Warehouse 1872 same – Gillett’s Cigar Factory Stripping Room and Warehouse from 1880 – 8 Vining Hill Rd


CEMETERIES

New Southwick Cemetery – on Route 10 / 202 just past Klaus Anderson Road

Southwick Cemetery

CHURCHES

Our Lady of the Lake Parish 1951 – 224 Sheep Pasture Rd

Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church Convent – 220 Sheep Pasture 1880 – 1960s to 1992

Southwick Christ Lutheran Church

Southwick Congregational Church – 488 College Hwy 1824

Southwick Methodist Episcopal Church – 222 College Hwy 1824 – Southwick Methodist Church Parsonage at 230 College – 1882 built as parsonage

West Cemetery

West Cemetery is on Leverett Road in Shutesbury near Montague Road. This cemetery is from 1793. There are older gravestones in this cemetery that were moved here from an ancient burial ground within the town. They date from 1750s to 1800s and were moved in 1938. This ancient cemetery was on Cooleyville Road and was just in back of the present town hall. Along Leverett Road to the west is the Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery.

Sarah Ann Dickinson Adams

The Hearse House is from 1840. The West Cemetery Tomb is across the street.

The Luther Henry Tomb Yard abuts the cemetery. The town took over the yard in 1954. Burials started there in 1820. The Luther Henry Tomb is from 1839. The west half of the cemetery is for the Luther Henry family and the east half for the Samuel Henry family.

Harvey Robins Atkins – died in the Spanish American War

Luther Henry

Samuel Henry

Gideon Stetson

Charles Williams

Jacob Coney 1777

Amos Hunting

children gravestone pairs

Shutesbury

Shutesbury

Lake Wyola

Shutesbury Center

Shutesbury Baptist Church – 6 Town Common Rd 1827

Mirick Spear Memorial Library 1902

Shutesbury Town Hall (formerly the Shutesbury Center School) 1950

Leverett Road in Shutesbury

Cemeteries

Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery

West Cemetery

Henry Cemetery

Pratts Corner Cemetery – Pratts Corner Road

Locks Village Cemetery – Locks Pond Road – made in 1808 near Lake Wyola – to the west of the juncture of Lake Drive

Burial Grounds of Shutesbury throughout its History