History of Warwick, Massachusetts, USA

Warwick, Massachusetts
Franklin county. This town is elevated, and contains Mount Grace, from which a delightful prospect is presented. The soil is strong, warm, and produces excellent pasturage. There are no considerable streams in the town, and its manufactures consist only of leather, scythes and palm-leaf hats. Moose pond, a pleasant sheet of water, furnishes an abundance of fine trout, pickerel and perch.

Warwick was incorporated in 1763. Population, 1837, 1,111. It is 78 miles W.N.W. from Boston and 14 E. by N. from Greenfield.

Warwick was at first called Roxbury Canada, because granted to the heirs of Roxbury troops who perished in the Canada expedition of 1690.

Mount Grace is quite an elevated hill, but there is no stream of any magnitude.

Many palm-leaf hats are made here, but agriculture is the chief resource of the inhabitants.

Distance from Greenfield, 14 miles; from Boston, 78.

The Indian name for this town was Shaomet. It was incorporated as a town in 1763. The first church which was formed here, in 1760, consisted of twenty-six members. Rev. Lemuel Hedge, the first minister, was ordained here December 3d, 1760, on the day of the formation of the church; he died in 1777, aged 44 years. His successor was Rev. Samuel Reed, who was settled here in 1779; he died in 1812, aged 57. Rev. Preserved Smith, the successor of Mr. Reed, was settled in 1814. The church and society now worship in the third house that has been built for the society; it was erected in 1836. The Trinitarian church in this place was organized in 1829, and consisted at that time of thirty members. Rev. Samuel Kingsbury, the first minister, was installed pastor in 1833, and resigned in 1835. His successor was Rev. Roger C. Hatch.

There is in the central part of the town an insulated, mountainous elevation, called Mount Grace, from which there is a fine prospect. There is a scythe factory in...

Warwick, a post-township in Franklin co., Massachusetts, 72 miles W. N. W. from Boston. Population, 1021.

Warwick is a large, somewhat mountainous, farming and lumbering town forming the northeastern corner of Franklin County, 87 miles west by northwest of Boston. Warwick (centre) is the post-office and the village.

The station of the Fitchburg Railroad in Wendell is 6 miles south of Warwick centre; and that of the New London and Northern, at Northfield village, is about seven miles west. Royalston is the boundary on the east; Orange, on the southeast and south; Erving and Northfield, on the west; and Winchester and Richmond, in N. H., on the north. The assessed area is 22,489 acres. There are above 12,500 acres of forest, containing the usual flora of the region.

The farms number 144; and the value of their aggregate product in 1885 was $90,528. Fruits and berries bear their usual proportion; and there was a large product of maple sugar and molasses. Lumbering largely engages the people in the winter season. There were, in 1885, eight saw-mills and two wooden box factories. Their...

Warwick, a post-village in Warwick township, Franklin co., Mass., about 42 miles N.W. of Worcester, and 16 miles E.N.E. of Greenfield. It has 3 churches, and manufactures of boots, brushwoods, and lumber. The township contains 16 saw-mills. Pop. of the township, 744.