Southampton

It was settled in 1732 and became a town in 1775.

Southampton Town Hall (1902) – 8 East Street

Southampton First Congregational Church

Southampton Methodist Church

Southampton Center Historic District

Lockville Historic District

Lyman Pond

War Memorial Monument

Clearwater Woodlands Conservation Area – MAP – 111 Glendale Road – follow the blue blazes – over 1 mile

Libraries of Southampton

Houses of Southampton

The Reservoirs of Southampton (list)

Conant Memorial Park

Labrie Field – 30 Strong Road

Cemeteries

Southampton Center Cemetery

Gridley Cemetery

West Part Cemetery

Burial Grounds of Southampton throughout its History

Highland Ponds and the DAR State Forest

Highland Ponds and the DAR State Forest are great places to visit and I have been there often.

Lower Highland Lake was made by the CCC in the 1930s. The dam was a 1840 mill dam that was improved. It was owned by the Hampshire Water Power Company.

Upper Highland Lake has a mill dam from 1873. It was renovated by the CCC also.

The DAR State Forest was made in 1929 when the DAR gave the state a forest. The CCC built Moore Hill Road in 1933. The State Forest is in both Goshen and in Ashfield.

In DAR State Forest at Twinning Brook there is a dam system. There is a spillway there too.

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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

Charles Cummings

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 – Actually at LINK

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.

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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.

Warner Silk Mill Canal

Beers 1871 map

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.

Sanborn 1884 map

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1895 map

not on the 1902 map since in the late 1890s a fire destroyed the mill