Canal Days – Page 16 – Historical Tours of the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts

Norwich Bridge Cemetery

Norwich Bridge Cemetery is on Littleville Road past the Gateway Schools. In the back of the cemetery are the burials from the Indian Hollow Cemetery and Knightville Cemetery. These last two mentioned burial sites were moved to the Norwich Bridge one. The burials and the gravestones were moved in 1939 due to the construction of the Knightville Dam. There is now a memorial stone.

Rhode Rhoades – LINK

All Saints Catholic Church

All Saints Parish is at 17 North Street. www.warecatholic.org 1860 – Rectory: 60 South Street. The church is from 1894 and took 6 years to finish. The style is High Victorian Gothic and was designed by Patrick Ford. It was called Saint William’s Church at first. The first Catholic masses were held in a wooden church on West Street in 1850. This church has two cemeteries. The rectory next door is from 1893 and is in the colonial revival style.

Saint William’s Catholic Church

Saint Mary’s Church

Saint Mary’s Church is at 57 South Street in Ware. It shares the rectory. The parish started in 1905 and the church in 1906. This is for the Polish ethnic group. Bells were installed in 1923. The rectory across the street was purchased in 1927. This was the Otis Company Agent’s House and is at 60 South Street.

The modern school is from 1959.

Cemeteries that form Quabbin

Shaker Cemetery in Petersham – LINK

Farnsworth Grave – LINK

Mann Family Cemetery – Prescott

Center Cemetery – Prescott

North Prescott Cemetery

Bobbinville Burial Ground – Prescott

Northeast Cemetery – Prescott

Northwest Cemetery – Prescott

Wilder Family Cemetery – Enfield

Hamilton Cemetery – Shutesbury

Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Cemetery

Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Cemetery

past West Main Street on Belchertown Road near Wildflower Drive 1929

Joseph Palys – FINDAGRAVE

Julian Niemiec – LINK

Oldest Burials

Walter Marcinek – LINK

PASTOR AREA

Wojtkowiak LINK

West Springfield Public Library

West Springfield Public Library is at 192 Park Street in West Springfield Massachusetts. It is from 1915.

Main Street in Easthampton


Vista Apartments	19	1913
Hannum House	23	1863
Wendell Apartments	35	1895
Easthampton Town Hall	43	1869
Providence Methodist Church	51	1893
Old First National Bank of Easthampton	63	1871
Masonic Building – Shop Row	67	1861
Union Block – Shop Row	75	1868
Knight’s Brick Block – Preston Block	83	1849
Winslow Block – Chapman Block	89	1866
Lambie Block	97	1866
Dr. Francis Greene House	115	1850
John Scott House	117	1861
Jairus Clark – Bartlett Building	119	1869
Ellen and Francis Pomeroy and the M. Smith House	125	1865
Shoals House	135	1867
William Lyman House	143	1851	DAR house
Dickinson House	149	1884
Lyman House	157	1859
Albert Sanders – Dr. Oliver Warren Cobb House	159	1881
Johnson House	165	1850
Benjamin Lyman House	167	1785