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Longmeadow Cemetery is from 1716. They had their own hearse house as did most towns.

They have their own web site:

http://longmeadowcemetery.org/index.html

Bliss family is still in the correct orientation.

Webster children are in order.

And Maria Bliss is too.

Ezra Stebbins died in 1819. His footstone is still there.

Moses Field has his footstone behind his headstone.

Mary Ann Booth has the same.

The Lucy Stebbings gravestone pair has the same pillar shape.

In the original older section, some gravestones point to the north and some to the south. They have been placed that way right from the beginning.

FINDAGRAVE

First Longmeadow Church of Christ

Stephen Williams – FINDAGRAVE

Longmeadow

PARKS

Bliss Park and Laurel Park

Williams Street Playground

Turner Park – Turner Park Pond – off Williams St at Turner Park Drive and Academy Drive

East Park in Longmeadow

The Green

Longmeadow Historic District

Longmeadow Street–North Historic District

Longmeadow Town Hall

Longmeadow Historical Society

Bay Path University

Second District Schoolhouse

Storrs Public Library

Longmeadow Country Club

The Olmsteds in Longmeadow

CHURCHES – LIST

CEMETERIES

Longmeadow Cemetery

Burial Grounds of Longmeadow throughout its History

NEIGHBORHOODS – LINK

SCHOOLS

Willie Ross School for the Deaf

Florence Congregational Church is from October of 1861. The first pastor was T A Leete. The society to organize the congregation was formed on October 20 1860. This Pine Street church is quite gorgeous. The Florence Congregational Church is at 130 Pine and the chapel is at 132 Pine.

The minister was living at 110-112 Pine. This is the Florence Congregational Church Parsonage. It was most likely built at the same time as the church and chapel. The style is Italianate.

Sojourner Truth Memorial – EXTERNAL LINK

African-American Heritage Trail (from Sojourner Truth Memorial group) – EXTERNAL LINK to trail map

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