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National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts

landmark	LINK	community
Edward Bellamy House	LINK	Chicopee
Springfield Armory	LINK	Springfield
Historic Deerfield	LINK	Deerfield
William Cullen Bryant Homestead	LINK	Cummington
Emily Dickinson Museum	LINK	Amherst
Arrowhead	LINK	Pittsfield
Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room	LINK	Dalton
W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite	LINK
Chesterwood	LINK	Stockbridge
Hancock Shaker Village	LINK
Jacob’s Pillow	LINK	Becket
Mission House	LINK	Stockbridge
The Mount	LINK	Lenox
Naumkeag		Stockbridge
Western Railroad Stone Arch Bridges and Chester Factory Village Depot		Becket
American Antiquarian Society		Worcester
First Church of Christ		Lancaster
Fruitlands		Harvard
Goddard Rocket Launching Site		Auburn
John Gough House		Boylston
Liberty Farm		Worcester
General Rufus Putnam House		Rutland

Saint John’s Episcopal Church is at 6 South Street (at the corner of South Street and Route 116)

Saint John’s Episcopal Church Burial Grounds

The church is also a burial site with 5 people interred within the church.

FINDAGRAVE

			burial
Rev. Thomas Brinton Flower			burial
James Frisbie Flower			burial
Mary W. Flower			burial
James Blaisdale			burial
Ralph Brown Blaisdale			burial

Ashfield

DAR State Forest

Briar Hill

Ashfield Veterans Monument – Whitney Acres Rd 1980

Briar Hill Cemetery from 1828 is on West Rd Ashfield

Saint John’s Episcopal Church and Burials

Plain Cemetery – Baptist Corner Road 1767 – Civil War Monument – also called Center Cemetery and Ashfield Cemetery

Baptist Corner Cemetery – on March Road

Burnett Family Cemetery – on private land

Northwest Cemetery – Apple Valley Road

Burial Grounds of Springfield throughout its History

CATHOLICS

Gate of Heaven Cemetery – 421 Tinkham Road

Saint Aloysius Cemetery

Saint Benedict’s Cemetery

Saint Matthew’s Cemetery

Saint Michael’s Cemetery

Saint Joseph’s Polish National Cemetery

LINK to my Patreon video about the Catholic cemeteries of Springfield.

PROTESTANTS

Cherry Lane Cemetery

Hillcrest Park Cemetery

Maplewood Cemetery

Oak Grove Cemetery

Springfield Cemetery

Wachogue Cemetery

JEWISH

City of Homes Cemetery

Kesser Israel Cemetery

Sons of Israel Cemetery

Sinai Memorial Park

FORMERLY within SPRINGFIELD

Native American Burial Sites (East Windsor Native American Burial Ground)

Longmeadow Cemetery (Longmeadow)

Chicopee Street Burial Ground (Chicopee)

East Street Cemetery (Chicopee)

Pine Grove Cemetery (Chicopee)

Elmwood Cemetery (Holyoke)

Old Meadow Cemetery (West Springfield)

Paucatuck Cemetery (West Springfield)

Ashleyville Cemetery (West Springfield)

Old Burial Ground on Federal Hill (Agawam)

Old Feeding Hills Cemetery (Agawam)

Sikes Cemetery (Ludlow)

Adams Cemetery (Wilbraham)

Old Hampden Cemetery (Hampden)

Old Center Cemetery (Suffolk Connecticut)

Town Cemetery (East Windsor Connecticut)

North Cemetery (Somers Connecticut)

West Cemetery (Somers Connecticut)

SPECIAL

Bay Path Cemetery

Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel Churchyard

Forest Park (Barney Mausoleum)

Trinity Memorial Garden

Sacred Heart Churchyard

Saint Augustine Mortuary Chapel

Burial Grounds of Springfield throughout its History

Unitarian Universalist Church Memorial Garden – 245 Porter Lake Drive

Trinity Memorial Garden

GONE

Methodist Cemetery

Old Springfield Cemetery

Long Hill Cemetery

Saint Joseph’s Polish National Cemetery is from 1939.

External HISTORY – LINK

Cottage Street near Industrial Avenue

Mary Mother of Hope Catholic Church

Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church

Immaculate Conception Church

Immaculate Conception Church Campus began in 1904 as a Polish ethnic group parish in the Catholic religion. The church is at 11 Parker Street.

Immaculate Conception School

The school is from 1909.

Immaculate Conception Rectory

The rectory is from 1912. It is at 25 Parker.

pastor	starts	ends	burial
Francis Kolodzeiz	1904
Kiulbasinski
Kwasneski		1913
Joseph M Tomikowski	1913

Immaculate Conception Convent

The convent is from 1916.

Immaculate Conception Church War Memorial

military	war		burial
Fryderyk Gwozdz	WW1		burial
Andrzej Lackmanek	WW1		burial
Jan Lazor	WW1		burial
Jan Wozniak	WW1		burial
Josef Bigda	WW2		burial
Stanislaw Boryczka	WW2		burial
Mieczyslaw Chmura	WW2		burial
Edwin Chrabaszcz	WW2		burial
Franciszek A Chrzanowski	WW2		burial
Teodor Droszcz	WW2		burial
Wladyslaw S Gladkowski	WW2		burial
Mieczyslaw A Irla	WW2		burial
Franciszek S Jamro	WW2		burial
Stefan J Kaczowka	WW2		burial
Jan A Kapinos	WW2		burial
Jozef Karczmarczyk	WW2		burial
Mieczyslaw K Kielbania	WW2		burial
Edwin J Klys	WW2		burial
Edward M Kozdronkiewicz	WW2		burial
Leon E Labaj	WW2		burial
Franciszek S Lezon	WW2		burial
Leon E Lezon	WW2		burial
Franciszek J Majewicz	WW2		burial
Jan E Nowak	WW2		burial
Wladyslaw M Obrzut	WW2		burial
Mieczyslaw Olejarczyk	WW2		burial
Jan A Podsadowski	WW2		burial
Tadeusz J Puc	WW2		burial
Jozef S Rogala	WW2		burial
Leon J Sajdak	WW2		burial
Jan W Stupak	WW2		burial
Edward Szlosek	WW2		burial
Stanislaw P Truchan	WW2		burial
Kazimierz T Tyburski	WW2		burial
Wladyslaw F Wegiel	WW2		burial
Jozef F Wojnar	WW2		burial
Mieczyslaw J Wozniak	WW2		burial
Edward P Ziencina	WW2		burial
Tadeusz W Skowron	Korean War		burial

Neighborhood

The Victoria Stusik Dry Goods Store is at 10 Parker with the Commercial Block to its right and also to its back.

The Polish Home Society of Tadwusz Kosciuszko from 1925 is at 28-30 Rapalus Avenue.

Springfield Manufacturing Company Boarding House is at 11 Ludlow Avenue. Also at 545 and 577 Main St Springfield. These were homes for the workers at the Springfield Manufacturing Company (1821 to 1849). Then Ludlow Mills (1849 to 1868). Then the Ludlow Manufacturing Company

United Presbyterian Church is located at Newbury and Greenleaf Streets. This church is from 1925. It was dedicated February 14 1926. It was built in the Gothic Revival style. It borders on Dana Park.

It is now Crossroads Ministries – LINK

College of Our Lady of the Elms started in Pittsfield in 1897 but moved to Chicopee in 1899.

Kavanagh Memorial Gates 1947

Elms College Chapel of Our Lady – GONE

Justin Spaulding House

Marian Hall 1928

Berchams Hall

O’Leary Hall

Emerson Gaylord House 1875 – 35 Gaylord Street

Alumnae Library

Statues