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  History of Plainfield, Massachusetts, USA

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Visit Plainfield, Massachusetts, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1770 - Plainfield is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1807 - Plainfield is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1845 - PLAINFIELD. [Pop. 910. Inc. 1807.]
  Plainfield was originally the north part of Cummington.
  
  The land is elevated, but the soil is good, especially for grass.
  
  Several...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Plainfield
  Plainfield, a post-township in Hampshire co., Massachusetts, 110 miles W. by N. from Boston. Population, 814.
  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.
  
  
• Plainfield Massachusetts, 1890
  Plainfield occupies the northwest extremity of Hampshire County, having for its bounds, Hawley on the north, Ashfield on the east, Cummington on the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Plainfield
  Plainfield, a post-hamlet in Plainfield township, Hampshire co, Mass., about 22 miles N.W. of Northampton. It has a church and a woollen-mill. The...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Looking East from Post Office Square, Plainfield, Mass.
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  Church, Town Hall, and Post Office, Plainfield, Mass.
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  Lower Main Street, Plainfield, Mass.
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• 1906
  Plainfield, a post-village in Plainfield township (Town), Hampshire co., Mass., about 22 miles NW. of Northampton. The town presents beautiful...Read MORE...