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Saint Mary’s Cemetery of Northampton is located on North Elm Street. This cemetery is from 1870. There was a former cemetery that was moved into this one and that one is from 1845. The gravestones from that early cemetery are mostly just inside the stone wall on eastern edge of North Elm Street.

Sectional Map of the Cemetery – External Link to Northampton Site

Patrick Moyce LINK

Priests Circle LINK

Older Stones

Reinternments from the Old Saint Mary’s Cemetery LINK

Flood Victims

FINDAGRAVE

Slough Hill schoolhouse LINK

The schoolhouse is from 1877.

Babies’ Section LINK

Across Bridge Street

There are very modern burials across the street. Cross Bridge Street to view.

Across North Elm Street

This next section was formed in 1939.

Hackney and Trottier mauseleum is below.

DISTRICTS

Northampton Downtown Historic District

Clarke School for the Deaf Historic District

PARKS – LIST

OTHER

Forbes Library

Lilly Library

Smith College

Schools

Sojourner Truth Memorial

Florence

Northampton Community Garden

Memorial Hall and its Plaza

Northampton Town Hall

Flood of 1874

Olmsteds in Northampton

Northampton State Hospital

Calvin Theater

Academy of Music

Northampton Institute for Savings Building

Hampshire County Courthouse

Hampshire County House of Correction

Tri-County Fairgrounds

The Schools of Northampton

Northampton Historical Society Building

Shady Lawn Mental and General Sanitarium

Elm Street Neighborhood

West Farms

Saint Michael’s School

Connecticut River

Connecticut River Railroad Bridge

Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge

Connecticut River Greenway State Park

Mill River

Farmington Canal

Conservation Areas

Cemeteries – LIST

CHURCHES – LIST

CANALS – The Power Canals of Northampton

Belchertown

Cemeteries of Belchertown

Churches of Belchertown

Belchertown Town Common

Stone House Museum

Main Street in Belchertown

J G Holland Homestead in Belchertown

Post Offices of Belchertown

Belchertown State School

Belchertown Almshouse

War Memorials in Belchertown Massachusetts

Quabbin

Jabish Brook – MAP – off 513 Daniel Shay HWY

Conservation Areas of Belchertown

Holyoke Water Power Company Buildings (Parallel to the Canal)

There was the HWP Cabot Street Mill but there also was the HWP Buildings.

Sanborn map analysis:

Sanborn 1884 map – Jolly Machine Shop, Buttrick and Flanders, and Buchanan & Bolt

Sanborn 1889 map – Jolly Machine Shop, Buttrick and Flanders, and Buchanan & Bolt

Sanborn 1895 map – Jolly Machine Shop, Buchanan & Bolt, and Farr Alpaca (boiler and storehouse

now the Farr Alpaca Silk Mill number 3 which was built in 1905

Sanborn 1915 map and then stay there

Buttrick and Flanders Spindle Shop was a maker of spindles, bolsters, and steps.

Timothy B Flanders died in 1900 at age of 72 – FINDAGRAVE

C G Buttrick

Sanborn map analysis:

Sanborn 1884 map

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1895 map – gone

Skinner Museum

Orchards (Joseph Skinner house) was constructed in 1920 at 48 Woodbridge Street. It remained in the family for decades. It is now used as a school for autistic children. Its landscape is an Olmsted design.

Holyoke Bone Company

Sanborn 1884 map

becomes by 1889 the C H Brush and Sons Machine Shop

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1895 map

becomes by 1915 the McHugh Foundry Company

Sanborn 1915 map

becomes by 1949 the Holyoke Casting Company, the Decora Lamp Corp, and the ElectroIce and Sales Corp.

Sanborn 1949 map

becomes by 1956 the Denis Crib Inc and the ElectroIce

Sanborn 1956 map

The Mount Tom North Trailhead is found at LINK. This is an excellent entry point to the Eyrie House and the Mount Tom Range at Mount Nonotuck. There you will find a connection to the M and M trail.

Taking the power line right of way brings you to Underwood Drive.

Mount Tom Range

Mount Tom (the mountain)

Mount Tom Range

Mount Tom Reservation