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Southwick

Southwick

Ranch Golf Club and Southwick Country Club

Southwick Public Library 1892 – 475 College Hwy

Farmington Canal

Southwick Inn 1906 – 479 College Hwy

General Cigar Company Tobacco Barns – 686 College Hwy

Charles Gillett Cigar Factory and Warehouse – 215 College Hwy – Gillett, Charles J. Cigar Factory Tobacco Barn from 1880 – same address – Cigar Factory and Warehouse 1872 same – Gillett’s Cigar Factory Stripping Room and Warehouse from 1880 – 8 Vining Hill Rd


CEMETERIES

New Southwick Cemetery – on Route 10 / 202 just past Klaus Anderson Road

Southwick Cemetery

CHURCHES

Our Lady of the Lake Parish 1951 – 224 Sheep Pasture Rd

Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church Convent – 220 Sheep Pasture 1880 – 1960s to 1992

Southwick Christ Lutheran Church

Southwick Congregational Church – 488 College Hwy 1824

Southwick Methodist Episcopal Church – 222 College Hwy 1824 – Southwick Methodist Church Parsonage at 230 College – 1882 built as parsonage

West Cemetery

West Cemetery is on Leverett Road in Shutesbury near Montague Road. This cemetery is from 1793. There are older gravestones in this cemetery that were moved here from an ancient burial ground within the town. They date from 1750s to 1800s and were moved in 1938. This ancient cemetery was on Cooleyville Road and was just in back of the present town hall. Along Leverett Road to the west is the Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery.

Sarah Ann Dickinson Adams

The Hearse House is from 1840. The West Cemetery Tomb is across the street.

The Luther Henry Tomb Yard abuts the cemetery. The town took over the yard in 1954. Burials started there in 1820. The Luther Henry Tomb is from 1839. The west half of the cemetery is for the Luther Henry family and the east half for the Samuel Henry family.

Harvey Robins Atkins – died in the Spanish American War

Luther Henry

Samuel Henry

Gideon Stetson

Charles Williams

Jacob Coney 1777

Amos Hunting

children gravestone pairs

Shutesbury

Shutesbury

Lake Wyola

Shutesbury Center

Shutesbury Baptist Church – 6 Town Common Rd 1827

Mirick Spear Memorial Library 1902

Shutesbury Town Hall (formerly the Shutesbury Center School) 1950

Leverett Road in Shutesbury

Cemeteries

Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery

West Cemetery

Henry Cemetery

Pratts Corner Cemetery – Pratts Corner Road

Locks Village Cemetery – Locks Pond Road – made in 1808 near Lake Wyola – to the west of the juncture of Lake Drive

Burial Grounds of Shutesbury throughout its History

Easthampton Waterworks Dam

Easthampton Waterworks Dam is located near the crossing of Northampton Street with the Manhan River. Use Mill Street to get to the dam site.

From 1866 to 1885 this dam was owned by Joel Bassett and the Mount Tom Thread Company. Easthampton had a hydroelectric generator on the dam until 1947.

At 35 Northampton Street is workers’ housing for the old saw mill. 1840

A Waterworks building is in the back.

The reservoir is any water on the south of the dam.