Old First National Bank of Easthampton started in the town hall in 1864. (Macris) In 1871 this bank building was built as one of two structures directly over a cemetery that was moved. In 1952 the First National Bank of Easthampton moved across the street. Read about the old cemetery HERE.
This is the start of Shop Row and its Italianate style architecture.
Williston and Knight Button Works at 19 Payson Avenue is from 1891. It is now part of the Williston Academy campus. The first ever mill of the Williston and Knight Button Works was at 1 Cottage Street. By 1910 it was part of the United Button Company. The Williston and Knight Button Works was started in 1847 by Horatio Knight and Samuel Williston. They would make covered buttons. To get power they would dam the Broad Brook which comes out of Holyoke into Easthampton. It is as named a wide brook and meets the definition for a creek. An earthen dam was made with a spillway and both are still in place and make up cottage street. The reservoir that they formed is called the Nashawannuck.
Williston started the academy in 1841.
Easthampton Rubber Thread Company is at 32 Payson Avenue. The structure is from 1864. They made elastic cord, elastic clothe, and some rubber items. The old section of the mill is along the tracks and the newer along Payson Avenue. The newer is from the 1890s.
Rubber Thread Pond was their power source.
Philipp Hardware Manufactury
Brown Wagon Manufacturing Mill 1898 off of Ward Avenue
Henry Barnett Drop Forge Company 1908 off of Ward Avenue
Merrick Reservoir
Zenner Pond
Farmington Canal was joined to the Hampshire and Hampden Canal to make the New Haven and Northampton Canal.
Manhan Farms
| house | location | notes | built |
| Edward Ferry | 189 East Street | 1860 | |
| John Sparko | 199 East Street | craftsman bungaloo | 1918 |
| Stanislaw Razmus | 205 East Street | Queen Anne | 1919 |
| Dominick Talunas | 211 East Street | colonial revival foursquare – school was here before the house | 1916 |
| 219 East Street | 1870 |
