Goshen
Highland Ponds and the DAR State Forest
Mountain Rest (off of Spruce Corner Road)
Old Homes
Goshen Center School (Town Hall) – 42 Main Street 1922
Goshen Congregational Church 1782
John Williams Tavern and Post Office – 2 Williams Drive 1779
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Plainville Cemetery
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
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.
Granby Veterans Memorial Park
Warner Silk Mill Canal
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
Northampton Paper Mill Canal
The Northampton Paper Mill made the canal in 1836. Northampton Paper Mill Company Raceway is near the junction of Riverside Drive and Federal Street north of the Mill River.
It started as the William Butler Paper Mill. Then it became the Northampton Paper Company. Then the William Clark Mill. Vernon Paper Mill was later called the E E Wood Cutlery Works and then the Roger’s Cutlery. This was located in Paper Mill Village. The 1860 mill is at 122 Federal Street.
The William Butler Boarding House on 109 to 115 Milton Street is from the 1820s. The Northampton Paper Mill Superintendent’s House at 89 Federal is from the 1830s.
| mill | starts | ends |
| Butler Paper Mill | 1786 | 1835 |
| Northampton Paper Mill | 1835 | 1843 |
| Clark Paper Mill | 1843 | 1869 |
| Vernon Paper Mill | 1869 | 1886 |
| Northampton Paper Mill | 1886 | 1889 |
| EE Wood Cutlery | 1889 | |
| Roger’s Cutlery |
Sanborn 1884 map as the Vernon
Sanborn 1889 map as the Wood
Sanborn 1895 map as the Wood
Sanborn 1902 map as the Rogers
Sanborn 1910 map as the Rogers
Sanborn 1915 map as the Rogers
Lamb Wire Mill Canal
Lamb Wire Canal
Horace Lamb had his wire mill here. It was a maker of broom and brushes with wire bristles. FINDAGRAVE
from 1910 the Smith’s Grist Mill takes over
Vernon Paper Mill Canal
Vernon Paper Canal would become Wood Cutlery Canal in the mid-1880s and then becomes from 1910 the Roger’s Cutlery Works Canal
Maynard Shovel Mill Canal
Leonard Silk Canal
Highland Park Community House
Highland Park Community House
The 1923 fire was a trigger for the Highland Park Community House to leave the schoolhouse and find better quarters. They might have continued to meet at the Mount Tom Golf Clubhouse but I am not sure.
