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Worcester

Blackstone Canal

Massachusetts Early Catholic Churches

parish	started	location	notes
Holy Cross Church	1799 / 1803	Boston
Saint John’s Church	1836	Worcester	Their Link (started as Christ Church)
Saint Matthew’s Church	1839	Springfield / Chicopee	Holy Name of Jesus
Saint Michael’s Church	1840	Springfield
Saint Joseph’s Church	1849	Pittsfield
Saint Mary’s Church	1850	Milford
Saint Bridget’s Church	1851	Milbury
Saint Paul’s Church	1852	Blackstone
Holy Rosary Church	1853	Spencer
Saint Mary’s Church	1853	Uxbridge
Saint Louis’ Church	1853	Webster
Saint Jerome’s Church	1854	Holyoke
Saint Mary’s Church	1856	Lee
Saint Bernard’s Church	1856	Fitchburg
Saint Anne’s Church	1856	Worcester

Saint Thomas Cemetery

Saint Thomas Cemetery in Palmer – corner of Ware Street and High Street 1864

FINDAGRAVE

Brown Ellison Park

Brown Ellison Park – area of 13 Carver Street

Amherst Central Business District

Sweetser Park

Town SITE

The Cook Memorial Fountain was designed by the Olmsted Brothers in 1914.

At 81 Lessey Street is the home of Luke Sweetser. This would become the Oak Grove School in 1882. Then the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity House in 1903. The house is from 1835.

Amherst Masonic Temple at 99 Main St from 1910

Long Hill Cemetery

Long Hill Cemetery was at 45 Sumner Avenue in Springfield. FINDGRAVE

Long Hill Cemetery existed in Springfield from about 1834 to October 1907 in which year all the burials and gravestones were moved to the Oak Grove Cemetery also in Springfield. This was a Baptist burial ground that served the families around this area. The cemetery was moved in order to make room for the Sumner Avenue Elementary School. (I wrote the description used at Findagrave and that is why it is copied here.)

Ezra Osborne was at FINDAGRAVE.

Ezra Osborne is now at FINDAGRAVE.

First Congregational Church of Hatfield

First Congregational Church of Hatfield is at 41 Main Street. The church is from 1849 and is the 4th edition of the church. It is in the Greek Revival style. The clock is from 1891. The history of the church at external LINK and the web site for the church today is at:

https://www.hatfieldchurch.org/

Ministers of the First Congregational Church of Hatfield

The Congregational Church Parsonage is from 1852 and is at 45 Main Street. It also is in the Greek Revival style. In between the parsonage and the church is the Smith Academy building (1830). The Dickinson Memorial Hall is just after the church.