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The Homestead
1813
Evergreen
1856
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First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church had the cornerstone placed on September 21 1867. This is the 4th meeting house of the First Parish. It was dedicated in 1868. The parsonage is to its back left.
The First Parish Church and Meeting House is still in place.
Hill Cemetery
Hill Cemetery is from 1669. It is also called First Burying Ground. It is found at the triangle near Prospect, Elm, and Maple Streets. Hatfield was settled between 1660 to 1661. It became a town in 1670. Thus the cemetery was made the year before only and hence there must have been burials in either Hadley or Northampton.
John Cowles FINDAGRAVE
Correct Arrangement of Stones
Dorotha Graves 1800 FINDAGRAVE
Elnathan Graves died in 1785 FINDAGRAVE
Martha Graves
Jemima Allis death in 1727
John Allis death in 1691. – LINK – oldest in this cemetery
Lydia Dwight has a normal headstone but has a footstone that states that it is a footstone.
William Williams FINDAGRAVE
Israel Williams FINDAGRAVE
Joseph Lyman FINDAGRAVE
Erosion on the Gravestones
Cotton Partridge – LINK
Janet Smith – FINDAGRAVE
North Sunderland Cemetery
The North Sunderland Cemetery is from 1813. It is on Montague Road (Route 47) between North Mountain Road and Reservation Road. This cemetery is still in use and is rather small. The cemetery is in the family cemetery style. Deaths are noted in the town records as North Sunderland for the burial site since 1840s when records were kept. The majority of the burials of the town went to the Riverside Cemetery.
North Sunderland Cemetery is also called the Gunn Family Burial Ground. The Gunn house is at 207 Montague Road in Sunderland. FINDGRAVE
Found in the back row is the Martin Hubbard stone.
Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery is on Cemetery Road in Sunderland. It is near the juncture of South Main Street, Cemetery Road, Old Amherst Road, and River Road (near the Sunderland Bridge). The cemetery was made in 1714. The cemetery lies north to south along the Connecticut River. The gravestones are parallel to the river. Burials are on an east to west axis. This is the pioneer cemetery and as usual a church was nearby. The only other cemetery in town is the North Sunderland Cemetery and it is a neighborhood cemetery founded in 1813. As with most towns, this town cemetery had a dead house which was replaced by the holding tomb. It also had a hearse house which was located within the burial grounds. There are no Catholic nor Jewish cemeteries in the town. The Catholics went to church in Amherst. When buried these people were marked as being buried in Amherst when in fact they were buried in Hadley. Find them at the Saint Brigid’s Cemetery of Hadley. Before the Hadley Catholic cemetery existed (made in 1869) Catholics would be buried in Northampton at the St Mary’s Cemetery. Jewish people would belong to a synagogue in Northampton. The death records do state when a person was buried in North Sunderland as differentiated from Sunderland.
Mary Craft Hovey death date of 1714 might be the first burial. In 1908, 16 gravestones from the Crocker family were moved into this cemetery from the Wiley Cemetery of Leverett. The Wiley Cemetery is still in place and still has the burials of the Crocker family. It also has about 20 other burials never moved.
Native Americans have been found in Sunderland.
Zebina Leonard LINK
Sunderland
Sunderland
Sunderland Center Historic District
Graves Memorial Library 1900 at 111 North Main St
Gunn Family Dairy Farm
Whitmore’s Mills – William Bowman house 55 Falls Rd from 1832
Sunderland Bridge
Center School from 1922 -12 School Street
Sunderland First Congregational Church – 91 South Main St 1836
Sunderland First Congregational Chapel – 93 South Main St 1849
Sunderland Congregational Church Parish House – 87 South Main St 1817 – Luther Root house before that
Sunderland Congregational Parsonage Carriage House – 79 South Main St
Elisha Smith house from 69 South Main St Sunderland from 1756
First Central Baptist Church of Chicopee
First Central Baptist Church is from 1878.
In 1832 a Baptist Church was built on Maple and Belcher Streets. This was the First Baptist Church of Chicopee and the church edifice was at 59 Belcher Street and parsonage was at 64 Belcher Street.
In 1850 a Baptist Church was built on Market Street.
On May 14 1931 all the Baptists of Chicopee merged.
External LINK to the church web site
Springfield First Church of Christ Scientist
Springfield First Church of Christ Scientist at 599 State Street of Springfield is from 1915. They started in the 1880s in the city. In 1905 they had a wooden chapel. The structure is in the classical style.
Later the Springfield Progressive Community Baptist Church in 1995.
Saint George Orthodox Greek Church
Saint George Orthodox Greek Church was called the Memorial Church. It is at Main and Plainfield Streets. It is from 1869 and is associated with the Union Evangelical Society. The society is from 1865.
Memorial Square Historic District
Memorial Church Parish House is at 2309 Main Street. 1894
Greek Cultural Center
Our Lady of Hope Roman Catholic Church
Our Lady of Hope Roman Catholic Church is at 474 Armory and 577 Carew Streets in Springfield Massachusetts. It was made in 1925 and is another John Donohue church. The campus is a Local Historic District.
The parish was started in 1906 in the Hungry Hill neighborhood (now called Liberty Heights). In 1907 a wooden church was made. It was at Armory corner of Grover. Rectory at 14 Grover. It would become at the church hall in 1925. The 1925 church had a rectory attached to it in the 1970s. The church closed in 2009.
Our Lady of Hope School is from 1917. It is at 615 Carew Street of Springfield. The nuns were from the Sisters of Saint Joseph. A newer school and convent were built behind the church.
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| James M Cruse | 1920 | 1930s | FINDAGRAVE |
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