Leblanc Conservation Area
Leblanc Conservation Area
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Cottage Hill Square Grove
Cottage Hill Square Grove is formed by Hampshire, Essex, Myrtle, and Oak Streets. The park is from 1850 when the Indian Orchard Company formed it. In 1901 they gave it to Springfield.
The Arboretum at Cottage Hill is now in the park.
Chapman Valve Manufacturing Company Agent House at 140 Oak.
James Pease house at 115 Essex St Springfield from 1908.
Charles Thayer house at 146 Myrtle St from 1913.
First Congregational Church of Indian Orchard
First Congregational Church of Indian Orchard at 91 Berkshire Street was made in 1863. Its society is from 1848.
Sinai Memorial Park
Sinai Memorial Park – 649 Cottage Street 1948
Sinai Temple Memorial Park Cemetery is on Cottage Street in Springfield.
It was made in 1948.
Saint Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church
Saint Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church is at 50 Pinevale Street. The church is from 1864 and the rectory is from 1878.
| pastor | starts | ends | burial |
| James F Fitzgerald | 1878 | 1880 | |
| John Kenny | 1880 | ||
| William J Power | 1889 | ||
| William F Hartigan | 1924 | ||
| John J Hanrahan | 1933 | ||
| James Dumphy | |||
Sanborn 1911 map
West Farms Cemetery
West Farms Cemetery
200 West Farms Road
oldest burial is Freelove Johnson
There is an old house at 245 West Farms Rd. from about 1780 to 1820. Also one at 959 Westhampton Rd at the corner with West Farms Road.
West Farms Schoolhouse is at 173 West Farms Rd.
West Farms Chapel – 185 West Farms Rd is from 1814. It was enlarged in 1835 into a Greek Revival structure. It was made for the Methodists.
Sectional Map of the Cemetery – External Link to Northampton Site
Roosevelt Triangle
Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
Frances Bonne FINDAGRAVE is the founder of the cemetery and a pastor at its church. Pastor of Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church in South Deerfield and founder of the Holy Ghost Ukrainian Cemetery.
Whately
Whately was settled in 1672 and became at town in 1771. In that year it broke off from Hatfield.
Whately Center Historic District
Whately War Memorial 1921 at 194 Chestnut Plain Rd
Whately House – Whately Inn – 193 Chestnut Plain 1900
Whately Town House – Whately Town Hall at 194 Chestnut Plain Rd W
West Whately Historic District
Whately Congregational Church Parsonage at 208 Chestnut Plain Rd Whately 1822
West Whately Congregational Chapel – 153 Conway Rd 1896 then moved in 1901 from its former SW location
West Whately Schoolhouse – 151 Conway Rd 1813
Noah Field house – 1773 at 148 Conway Rd
Northampton Reservoir
Dexter Morton Mill Stone Dam from 1830 and its canal at Dry Hill Road.
Free Congregational Society of Florence
Free Congregational Society of Florence was founded in 1863. It was on Main Street in Florence in 1875 at Cosmian Hall. It was Unitarian and joined with the Northampton Unitarian Church at some point. Cosmian Hall was near the Lilly Library. Frederick Douglas delivered a speech there. LINK
In 1918 it is at 35 North Main Street and the minster lives at 41 North Main Street. Florence Free Congregational Church is still there but at some point it changed hands to the Florence Seventh Day Adventist Church. Cosmian Hall became the social hall. In the 1950s Cosmian Hall was razed. At 41 N Main is the Florence Sewing Machine Company Worker Housing which became the minister’s home.