History of Granby, Massachusetts, USA

Granby, Massachusetts
Hampshire county. This town lies 90 miles W. by S. from Boston and 9 S.E. from Northampton. Incorporated, 1768. It has good fish ponds and two small streams. There are two woolen mills in the town and 2,067 sheep. The wool, in 1837, sold for $3,670. Population, 1837, 922. It is said that copper ore of good quality is found in Granby.

Granby, named in honor of the Marquis of Granby, an English statesman, was once the second parish of South Hadley, and, of course, was once a part of Hadley, also.

A small stream, that crosses the town, and runs into the Connecticut, affords some water-power for factories.

Some attention is paid to the raising of sheep, but agriculture is the main dependence of the inhabitants.

Distance from Northampton, 9 miles; from Boston, 90.

Granby, a post-township in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, 100 miles W. by S. from Boston. Population, 1104.

GRANBY, a township in Hampshire co., in the state of Massachusetts, 9 m. SE of Northampton. Pop. 971.

Granby lies a little east of the middle on the south side of Hampshire County; and is bounded on the north by Hadley and Amherst, east by Belchertown, south by Ludlow and Chicopee, and west by South Hadley, on the Connecticut River. Its nearest railroad stations are at Belchertown (New London and Northern and Massachusetts Central railroads) on the east, and Chicopee Falls, Willimansett, Holyoke Village and Mount Tom, stations of the Connecticut River Railroad, westward.

The town is about six miles square,— equal to something over 23,000 acres; but the assessed area is only 15,591 acres, There are 5,493 acres of forest, consisting of maple, white and yellow birch, chestnut, elm, pine and hemlock. There is a large extent of nearly level upland and meadow varied by several elevations; as of Cold Hill in the northwest, then smaller ones, succeeded by Fox, Bagg and Turkey hills, running southeastward quite across the town. Extending east and west on the northern line is the long ridge...

Granby, a post-village and township of Hampshire co., Mass., 10 miles N.N.E. of Springfield. The township has 2 churches, a fire-insurance company, and some manufactures. Pop. 812.