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Lilly Library

Park Street Cemetery is from the 1820s.

FINDAGRAVE

The Porter curbing is still there but the family tombstone is gone. They were most likely disinterred in the 1890s during the national movement to have better burial places for the families.

Burleigh family

George Hoderstia

Shepherd’s Woolen Mill Canal number 1 was the highest upstream on the Mill River within Northampton.

From 1809 they were Shepherd’s Woolen Mills.

In 1828 they became the Northampton Woolen Mills.

In 1858 they became the Nonotuck Silk Mill.

In 1922 they became the Corticelli Silk Mills.

They closed in 1931.

Northampton Woolen Mill Canal

In 1858 it became the Chritchlow Button Factory. In 1871 it became the Warner Button Factory.

Huntington

Highland Mills Canal – Mill Canal – Upper Russell Road

Massasoit Paper Mill Canal

Norwich First Congregational Church – juncture of Searle, Church, and County Roads 1842

Saint Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church – 2 East Main St Huntington 1882

CEMETERIES

Ellis Cemetery 1805 on Goss Hill Road pass Kimball Road

Norwich Hill Cemetery 1771 – County Road just past Pond Brook Road

Saint Thomas Cemetery – start of Russell Rd route 20 in Huntington 1893

Norwich Bridge Cemetery

Cooks Dam below the bridge

Spillway of the dam

Cooks Canal on old map

1813 Webster has a woolen mill here

1820s Cooks Woolen Mill

1830s and 1840s

1855 Northampton Woolen Mill 2nd mill

1870s Warner Button Mill number 2

Saw Mill Hills – KESTREL trail

Chesterfield

Chesterfield Cemeteries – LINK

Chesterfield Canals

Cummington was settled in 1762 and was incorporated in 1779. WIKIPEDIA

Cummington Fair – since 1869 – external LINK

West Cummington First House Marker 1900 on route 9

Historical Society – LINK external

William Cullen Bryant Homestead – 205 Bryant Rd 1789 Colonial – EXTERNAL LINK

Bryant Free Library – LINK external

Canals in Cummington village of Swift River

Crosby Mill Canal – wood turning shop from Nehemiah B Crosby – on the North Branch of the Swift River – in village of Swift River in eastern Cummington – wing dam is NW of the mill – in the northern part of the town Crosby Reservoir Canal – canal and dam at the southern tip of the reservoir

Guilford Mill Canal – saw, planing, turning, and penholder mill from William H Guilford – canal is just north of the juncture of the North Branch of the Swift River and the Swift River itself and connects those two waterways

Lovell Mill Canal – Jacob Lovell Plane Factory – full dam across the Swift River

Canals in Cummington village of West Village – later called Paper Mill Village

Brown Paper Mill Canal – L L Brown Paper Mill – dams the Westfield River and uses that water – would be the Holliston Paper Company – ledger and bond paper

Elder Mill Canal – Henry S Elder Bedstead Factory Sawmill – lumber and shingles

Harlow Mill Canal – Charles Newell Harlow Sawmill and Turning – FINDAGRAVE – dam across the river

Canals in Cummington – village in town center

Bradley Canal – Bradley Brothers Turning Shop – saw mill, towel racks, and penholders and carriage shop – canal from Westfield River – Hylas F Bradley and Zenas H Bradley

Bruce Canal – Emory B Bruce Saw and Shingle –

Stevens Canal – N S Stevens Penholder Factory – also marking and brush handles

Orcutt Canal – Lysander J Orcutt – wool

Canals in Cummington – other places

Shaw Canal – L Shaw and Brothers – reservoir on the Shaw Brook – ran a tannery

Torrey Brothers and also Sawmill on a tiny brook but no canal

woolen yard mill and another sawmill on the Westfield River but no canal

Churches

Village Congregational Church 1838 – 32 Main Street in Cummington

Cummington Baptist Church 1894 – 17 Main St – first church from 1823 burned

West Cummington Congregational Church – Church Street – 1839

Universalist Church – 27 West Main St 1847

Cemeteries

CORBIN transcripts of Cummington cemetery data

Bryant Cemetery – John Warner is oldest burial at 1776 – Trow Road

Cobb Cemetery – Porter Hill Road

Dawes Cemetery – Potash Hill Road

Gurney Cemetery – Mount Road

Harlow Cemetery – Harlow Road

Shaw Cemetery – private land

Streeter Cemetery – Stage Road

Village Cemetery – Main Street 1823

West Cummington Cemetery – Walker Road – Rev John Bicknell

Minot Mills Canal

Enfield

Congregational Church of Enfield Massachusetts

Minot Mills Canal

Cemetery Hill

Enfield Church Cemetery

Howe Family Cemetery

Packardsville Cemetery

Wilder Family Cemetery

Woodlawn Cemetery