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Sumner Avenue Cemetery was at the southeast corner of Longhill Street and Sumner Avenue. Sumner Avenue Elementary School is now there.

Sanborn 1911 map – school is being built over the cemetery area

West Farms Chapel

Carver Reservoir

Carver Sawmill from H I Carver and A E Carver – structures in Ludlow and reservoir mostly in Granby – on the Stony Brook – within Granby there is a canal from the upper reservoir to the lower reservoir – grist mill is along the canal – W Carver, G Carver, and E and H Carver all live very close by

Sikes Cemetery is on Munsing Street. It is about from the year 1772. It was given then as a gift from Benjamin Sikes as the first burial ground of Ludlow. Ludlow was settled in 1751 and thus earlier burials would be in Springfield. Ludlow would be a district in 1774 and a town in 1775. Thus this cemetery gift was to the settlers of Ludlow who were acting as members of a town but formally it was still Springfield. It was at first called the Center Cemetery and then the Old Center Cemetery when the Center Cemetery was made.

A fence was placed around it in 1782 and a stone wall in 1865.

Anna Sikes 1776

Anna Sikes 1772

Benjamin Sikes 1781

Hannah Sikes

Submit Chapin – FINDAGRAVE

Dolly 1776

Maria Sikes – 1778

Methodist Episcopal Church of Ludlow

A River Flows through It

Connecticut River

Franklin County	Hampshire County	Hampden County

Chicopee River

Swift River – flows in Palmer

Westfield River

Ware River – flows in Barre – Hardwick – Hubbardston – Princeton – Ware – Westminster – Warren – Palmer

Quaboag River – flows in Brookfield – Palmer

Canals of Palmer

Power Canals of the Chicopee River

Three Rivers Canal – on the Chicopee River

Thorndike Company Canals – on the Ware River

Boston Duck Company Canals – on the Swift River

none – on the Quaboag River

Paterson New Jersey

Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park – EXTERNAL LINK

Agawam Canal was made in 1839 and the Southworth Mill was the first mill on the canal (1839). They would make a brick mill in 1879. The canal would last 90 years and was filled in in 1929.

Agawam Paper Mill

Mittineague Paper Mill

Strathmore Paper Mill is the 1911 merger of the Mittineague and the Woronoco.

Bridges of the Holyoke Canal

Streets Bridges over the First Level Canal

Lyman Street, Dwight, Appleton, Cabot, Sargeant

Streets Bridges over the Second Level Canal

Mosher, Lyman, North Bridge, Lyman, Dwight, Appleton, Cabot, Sargeant, and Jackson

Streets Bridges over the Third Level Canal

Main, Jackson, and Cabot

Railroad Bridges over the First Level Canal

Connecticut River Railroad

Railroad Bridges over the Second Level Canal

Connecticut River Railroad

Railroad Bridges over the Third Level Canal

Connecticut River Railroad Spike

Pedestrian Bridges over the First Level Canal

Pedestrian Bridges over the Second Level Canal

Pedestrian Bridges over the Third Level Canal