It was settled in 1732 and became a town in 1775.
Southampton Town Hall (1902) – 8 East Street
Southampton First Congregational Church
Southampton Center Historic District
Lockville Historic District
Lyman Pond
Clearwater Woodlands Conservation Area – MAP – 111 Glendale Road – follow the blue blazes – over 1 mile
Libraries of Southampton
The Reservoirs of Southampton (list)
Labrie Field – 30 Strong Road
Cemeteries
Burial Grounds of Southampton throughout its History
Holland Cemetery is off of Brimfield Road.
Holland
Holland Pond
Holland Town Library 1912
Hamilton Reservoir
The Cemeteries of Holland
Goshen Center Cemetery is on Mollison Hill Road and off of Cape Street near the DAR State Forest. Take Route 112 off of Route 9. The cemetery is also called the Mollison Hill Cemetery. The cemetery is on an east to west axis as old cemeteries in Massachusetts are. The gravestones from 1776 to the 1830s should face with inscriptions to the west but here for the most part they do not do so especially in the first three rows of stones. Goshen was settled in 1761 and became a town in 1781. The oldest gravestones in the cemetery are from 1774. These gravestones would have faced the east and they still do. There is a few rows that have gravestones facing the west off to the right middle side of the cemetery. These have never been moved. The front of the cemetery would have held a hearse house that stored a carriage that was used only for burials. The midsection left has a barren area that was for a holding tomb. Used in the winter for coffins. There most have been a land purchase to make the modern section. The portion before the land drops off would have been a potters field for both babies and adults.
David Strearns – FINDAGRAVE
John James LINK
Marion Atkin – FINDAGRAVE
Samuel Narramore – FINDAGRAVE
Jesse Willcutt – FINDAGRAVE
Sarah Wing – FINDAGRAVE
John Williams – LINK
Highland Ponds and the Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution State Forest are great places to visit and I have been there often.
Lower Highland Lake was made by the CCC in the 1930s. The dam was a 1840 mill dam that was improved. It was owned by the Hampshire Water Power Company.
Upper Highland Lake has a mill dam from 1873. It was renovated by the CCC also.
The DAR State Forest was made in 1929 when the DAR gave the state a forest. The CCC built Moore Hill Road in 1933. The State Forest is in both Goshen and in Ashfield.
In DAR State Forest at Twinning Brook there is a dam system. There is a spillway there too.
Highland Lake Trail
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Goshen
Highland Ponds and the DAR State Forest
Mountain Rest (off of Spruce Corner Road)
Old Homes
Goshen Congregational Church 1782
John Williams Tavern and Post Office
Plainville Cemetery – FINDAGRAVE – was formed in 1802 along the eastern edge of Hadley near its border with Amherst. It is the second youngest of the Protestant cemeteries in the town with only the Russellville Cemetery being younger. This is also called Cemetery number 4 of Hadley.
CORBIN collection
FINDAGRAVE
The Allen family stone is a cenotaph for the children. FINDAGRAVE
Isaac Hawley – first burial – FINDAGRAVE – near the Kellogg stone
Zebulon Taylor has a zinc monument.
Howard family
Henry Howard 1862 in New Bern
Charles Howard 1864 in Andersonville
Daniel Howard 1864 in Portsmouth Virginia – Actually at LINK
Cowles family
Rollin Cowles died at Cold Harbor Virginia in 1864 and his brother Silas Cowles would die two weeks later. Both would die due to the Civil War.
Baby Section
Neighborhood
Mount Warner Road
In the distance across the road to the east is the former schoolhouse.
On Mount Warner Road to the east is the Cowles homestead from 1839.
On Mount Warner Road to the east is the Eli Hawley homestead from 1839.
Tobacco farmland surrounds the cemetery in all directions.
Enoch Jewett built a dam across the Broughton Meadow Brook.
Warner Silk Mill Canal became the Leonard Silk Canal from 1889 onward.
William Skinner had built and lived in the 584 Elm Street home at the SE corner of Federal, South Main, Nonotuck, and Elm Streets. He lived there from 1850 to 1859.
not on the 1902 map since in the late 1890s a fire destroyed the mill
