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Thorndike Company Canals

Mill number 1 is from 1837 and mill number 2 is from 1845.

Schools of Northampton

Bridge Street School

College Hall at Smith College is from 1874. It is in the Gothic style.

First Baptist Church is from 1826 with the current church being from 1903. The first edition was on West Street opposite Elm Street.

Forbes Library was dedicated in 1894. It was designed by William Brocklesby in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. This style stresses deep windows and dark colors. This designer also did the Academy of Music.

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Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum – external LINK to the presidential library. Here is a WIKIPEDIA article on all the presidential libraries.

Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church is from 1900 as the cornerstone states. Work started in 1899. The church is at 344 A Elm Street and later is listed as 354 Elm. The rectory is at 336 Elm Street.

pastor
T P Lucey	1900	at least 1910
James Broderick		1933
John F O’Connor	at least 1934	at least 1950

Sanborn maps do not show this area.

The Saint Mary’s Church that existed now was completed in 1881 and the rectory in 1888. The older church was made in 1844 on King Street. It was a mission church of the Saint Matthew Church in Springfield/Chicopee and then the Holy Name Church in Chicopee. The cemetery of the church is at LINK.

pastor	starts	ends	burial
Patrick Moyce	1866	1872	FINDAGRAVE
Michael E Barry	1872	1889	FINDAGRAVE
John Kenny	1889	1917	FINDAGRAVE
Thomas Cummings	1917	1961	FINDAGRAVE
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John T. MacPherson	1967	1973	FINDAGRAVE
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Thomas Cummings served for 44 years at the church as pastor.

The Reservoirs of Southampton

Tighe-Carmody Reservoir

New Intake Reservoir

Fomer Reservoir

White Reservoir

Southampton Mill Pond – on the Mill Brook at the Meadow Park

Lyman Pond – on the Manhan River

PONDS

Alder Pond – on the Alder Meadow Brook

Pequod Pond

BROOKS

Manhan River
Moose Brook

Red Brook
Pequot Pond
Broad Brook
Alder Meadow Brook
Blue Meadow Brook

The Power Canals of Northampton

Clement Mill Canal

Cooks Canal

Lamb Wire Mill Canal

Maynard Shovel Mill Canal

Shepherd’s Woolen Mill Canal number 1

Shepherd’s Woolen Mill Canal number 2

Northampton Woolen Mill Canal

Nonotuck Silk Mill Canal

Northampton Cutlery Mill Canal

Northampton Paper Mill Canal

Warner Silk Mill Canal

Watson and Chamberlin Canal

Sources for the maps:

1831 town map

1845 and 1860 county maps

1873 1884 and 1895 atlases

Saint John the Apostle Church was started in 1915 as the first Catholic church in Hadley. Before that the Catholics of Hadley had to attend the Saint Brigid’s Church of Amherst. They existed as a mission church of that latter church from 1902 to 1915.

pastor
Cornelius Donoghue	1915