History of Goshen, Massachusetts, USA

Goshen, Massachusetts
Hampshire county. A mountainous town, 103 miles W. by N. from Boston and 12 N.W. from Northampton. Some valuable minerals are found here, such as emeralds, lead, and tin. The manufactures of Goshen are small, chiefly of boots and shoes. The value of 3,048 fleeces of wool, produced in 1837, was sold for $4,500. Population, 1837, 560.

Goshen was chiefly taken from the north part of Chesterfield.

This small town is somewhat mountainous, and some attention is paid to sheep.

Its manufactures are unimportant.

Distance from Northampton, 12 miles ; from Boston, 105.

Goshen, a post-township of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, 100 miles W. by N. from Boston. Population, 612.

GOSHEN, a township of Hampshire co., in Massachusetts, 12 m. NW of Northampton.Pop. 556.

Goshen is a small farming town in the northwest part of Hampshire County, having Ashfield on the north, Williamsburg on the east, Chesterfield by a serrated line on the south, and the same and Cummington on the west. The land is mountainous and broken. More's Hill, in the northeast angle, has a altitude of 1,713 feet. The town is rich in minerals, having a fine granite quarry, and furnishing specimens more or less abundant of tin ore, galena, graphite, granite, spodumene, blue and green tourmaline, smoky quartz, beryl, zoisite, mica, albite, and columbite. It is a delightful field for the mineralogist. Mill and Rogers' brooks flow around a beautiful eminence in the easterly part of the own, and thence into Mill River. Stone's Brook, which glides through Lily Pond, and Swift River, running through the westerly part of the town, are affluents of Westfield River. The otter, mink, ox and raccoon are common here; and the Canada lynx sometimes makes the town a visit. Grouse are very...

Goshen, a post-township of Hampshire co, Mass., 14 miles N.W. of Northampton. It has a church. Pop. 349.