Canal Days – Page 39 – Historical Tours of the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts

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

Main Street in Easthampton

north to south	odd side	year built	notes
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	GONE
John Scott House	117	1861
Clark and Bartlett Building	119	1869
Julius Pomeroy House	125	1861
Shoals House	135	1867
William Lyman House	143	1851	DAR house
Dickinson House	149	1884
Lyman House	157	1859
Dr. Cobb House	159	1881
Johnson House	165	1850
Benjamin Lyman House	167	1785

Park Street in Easthampton – LINK

south to north	even side	year built	notes
Easthampton Public Library	9 Park Street Easthampton	1881
World War I Veterans Monument	on grounds of library	1919
Jairus Clark House	130 Main St Easthampton	1860
Saint Philip’s Episcopal Church	128 Main St Easthampton	1901
Saint Philip’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall	126R Main St Easthampton	1867
Saint Philip’s Episcopal Parish Rectory	126 Main St Easthampton	1867	Thomas Sawyer House
Payson Congregational Church Parsonage	116 Main St Easthampton	1853
Payson Congregational Church Chapel	112 Main St	1879
Payson Congregational	112 Main St	1852
Matthews – Russell House	16 Main St Easthampton	1860
Seth Janes House	14 Main St Easthampton	1755
Pulaski Park
Memorial Hall	1 Northampton Street of Easthampton	1865
	9 Northampton Street of Easthampton	1850
First Congregational Church of Easthampton	13 Northampton Street of Easthampton	1846

Walking Tour of Five Cemeteries on or near Turners Falls Road in Montague

Walking Tour of Five Cemeteries on or near Turners Falls Road

Saint Mary’s Cemetery

Saint Anne’s Cemetery

Aaron Clark Memorial Cemetery

Our Lady of Czestochowa Cemetery

Springdale Cemetery

Elm Grove Cemetery in Montague is also on Turners Falls Road but too far away for this walking tour.

Locust Hill Cemetery in Montague is also on Turners Falls Road but too far away for this walking tour.

back to Montague

back to Montague cemeteries LINK

Morgan Street

Morgan Street crosses Northampton Street at its western edge and Nonotuck Street at its eastern edge.

Northampton Street

Samuel Whiting

Augustine Esleeck House

Even Side

Frank Simmons House at 178 Morgan Street in Holyoke from 1910. He was with the HWP company of Holyoke. This is a bungalow style house.

Clifton Tilley House at 168 Morgan Street of Holyoke was made in 1898. Tilley was a merchant in downtown Holyoke.

Joseph Ely House at 158 Morgan Street and is from 1924. William Chase House at 148 Morgan Street was made and designed by himself as was the twin house at 158 Morgan Street. They are in the Craftsman English Revival style and were built and designed in the same year. William married Vena Houston and Joseph Ely married Ada Josephine Houston. Vena and Ada Josephine were sisters.

at 138 Morgan St Holyoke 1950

at 128 Morgan St Holyoke 1920 the Herman Harrigan family – he was the chief engineer at the American Writing Paper Company of Holyoke

at 120 Morgan St Holyoke 1900

at 116 Morgan St Holyoke 1937

at 112 Morgan St Holyoke 1946

at 46 Morgan St Holyoke 1945

at 42 Morgan St Holyoke 1950

at 40 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Phileas McCarthy family

at 36 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Edward Smith family and he was a machinist

at 30 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Joseph Waugh family – by 1930 Michael Moneghan was here as a renter and he was a dyer in a woolen mill and also then in 1930 on the second floor was Edward Ryan a park keeper

at 20 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Thomas Lester family – he worked as an auto mechanic in a garage in Holyoke

at 16 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Robert Newell family – he worked as an overseer in a weaven woolen mill in Holyoke – on the second floor were the McGuire sisters that worked in paper mills

Odd Side

15 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Maurice Ferriter family

21 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Wilfred Pearson family

25 Morgan St Holyoke 1890 the Harrington Fay family

27 Morgan St Holyoke 1890

Morgan Street Park 1948

93 Morgan St Holyoke 1988

107 Morgan St Holyoke about 1958

Joseph Parker House at 129 Morgan Street of Holyoke. It is from 1892 and is the second oldest on the street. Parker worked at the Newton Paper Mill.

139 Morgan St Holyoke is from about 1890. It is from 1892 and is the oldest on the street. Clifton Tilley might have had this house built.

The Patrick Carmody house at 149 Morgan Street of Holyoke is from 1895. This is a colonial revival house. Patrick was the head of the Holyoke Water Works commission for about a half century.