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• 1754 - Greenwich is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1839 - Greenwich
  Greenwich, Massachusetts
  Hampshire county. There are a number of ponds in this town, by which, and Swift river passing through it, a good water power is acquired. There is a woolen mill in the town, and manufactures of shoes, boots, palm-leaf hats, and scythes. Incorporated, 1754. Population,... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1845 - GREENWICH. [Pop. 824 Inc. 1754.]
  Greenwich is situated on the east and west sources of Swift river, and originally included a part of Plainfield.
  
  Some woollen cloth, scythes, and palm-leaf hats are manufactured here.
  
  Distance from Northampton, 17 miles; from Boston, 75.
  An Elementary Geography for Massachusetts Children by William Bentley Fowle and Asa Fitz, 1845
  
•   1846 - Serious Accident
  A Mr. David Lincoln, with his wife and brother, Sylvester Lincoln, of Greenwich, were riding into our village in a buggy, last Wednesday, the forward part of the body holding the dasher gave way, frightening the horse, which ran furiously down the hill, by the brick church; and when at the corner... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1854 - Greenwich
  Greenwich, a post-township of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, on the W. side of Swift river, about 80 miles W. of Boston. Population, 838.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
• 1859
  GREENWICH, a township in Hampshire co., in Massachusetts, 75 m. W of Boston. Pop. 824.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
•   1889 - A fire on the 19th destroyed the Greenwich Hotel, which had for some eighty years been one of the landmarks of the village of Greenwich, Mass.
  
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  February 23, 1889
  
• Greenwich Massachusetts, 1890
  Greenwich is a narrow town occupying a long space on the eastern side of Hampshire County, and near its north line. It is about 73 miles west of Boston. On its north is Prescott; Dana and Hardwick bound it on the east, Enfield on the south, and the latter and Prescott on the west. The assessed area ... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Greenwich
  Greenwich, a post-village of Hampshire co., Mass., on Swift River, 30 miles by rail N.E. of Springfield. It has a church. , Pop. of the township, 526.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
• 1916
  Greenwich, a post-village of Hampshire co., Mass., on the Swift River, 30 miles by rail NE. of Springfield. Pop. of the township (town) in 1900, 491.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
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• The Past & Present of Quabbin Reservoir
  
• 1938 - Greenwich ceases to exist due to the formation of the Quabbin Reservoir
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
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