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
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
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 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 Rd
Whately Center Cemetery FINDAGRAVE – 215 Chestnut Plain Road near town hall – founded in 1762 – had a hearse house on the land – behind is the Oliver Morton Farm
East Whately Cemetery FINDAGRAVE – 202 Christian Lane – 1772 – Hope Hill Cemetery
West Whately Cemetery – FINDAGRAVE – 122 Webber Road and 20 feet on a farm road to the grounds – 1776
Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery FINDAGRAVE – Long Plain Road
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.
Methodist Episcopal Church was at 90 Elm Street in 1904 at least.
Center Street building was from 1852. The society formed in 1841.
Smith-Toogood Tomb if off a hiking trail that is near Maynard Hill Road in Chester. It is south of the middle portion of that road and half way to the Day Brook.
It is one of only three tombs that are hollowed out of rock. This is granite rock.
Hiram Smith death in 1873
Isabell Smith Toogood death in 1869
Chester
Chester State Forest
North Chester Historic District also called Dayville or Littleville
Chester Factory Village Historic District
Chester Center Historic District
Middlefield–Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge District
Western Railroad Stone Arch Bridges and Chester Factory Village Depot
CHURCHES
Chester First Congregational Church – 334 Skyline Trail
Chester Old Methodist Church – 221 Rt 20 Chester
CEMETERIES
Bell Cemetery
Campbell Cemetery
Chester Center Cemetery 1767 – 343 Skyline Trl
Chester Factory Village Cemetery 1799
North Chester Cemetery – East River Road to Smith Road which is the left fork of two with Bemis to the right
Edwards Congregational Church was organized in 1832 and made in 1833 at the corner of Main and South Streets (near the present day Thornes). May 19 1870 it burned to the ground. The next one was made in 1871 and dedicated Feb 8 1872. It was on Main and State Streets.
In 1958 a new church was made.
External LINK to the official church site.
