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History of Chester, Massachusetts, USA

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Where is Chester, Massachusetts, USA?

• 1760 - Chester is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1765 - Chester is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1845 - CHESTER. [Pop. 1,632. Inc. 1765.]
  A factory village is at the southeastern corner of the township, but the rest of the town is agricultural.
  
  Westfield River runs through...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1848 - Justice?
  A few days since, Edwin Austen, of Chester, Mass, ran away with the wife and two children of Edwin Wilcox, of the same place. The injured husband...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Chester
  This town was incorporated in 1765. The Rev. Aaron Bascom and. Samuel M. Emerson appear to have been the first ministers. Rev. Rufus Pomeroy was...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Chester
  Chester, a post-township of Hampden co. Mass. on the Western railroad 100 miles W. by S. from Boston. Population, 1521.
  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
  CHESTER, a township of Hampden co., in the state of Massachusetts, 116 m. SW of Boston. It is generally mountainous, and is drained by branches of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1868 - Hiram Smith, and eccentric old bachelor at Chester, Mass., is having his sepulcher hewn in a large rock in that town.
  He pays a man $700 to do the work, and by the stipulation the cave is to be seven feet long, four wide, and four deep, and after his coffin is put...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1880 - A New York dispatch says: It is believed a practically inexhaustible supply of emery ore has been discovered near Peekskill.
  The discovery is regarded as one of the greatest importance, from the fact that this metal, in a sufficiently pure state to make it marketable, is...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Chester Massachusetts, 1890
  Chester, noted for its wild and picturesque scenery, occupies the northwest extremity of Hampden County, and has for its bounds, Worthington on the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1893 - A TRAIN'S FATAL PLUNGE IT GOES THROUGH A BRIDGE IN MASSACHUSETTS
  The Locomotive Got Across Safely, But Four Wagner Cars Plunged Into the Stream - Many Persons Killed or Injured - The Scene at the Wreck.
  
  The...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Chester
  Chester, a post-village of Hampden co., Mass., on a branch of Westfield River, 28 miles by rail W.N.W. of Springfield. It has 2 emery-mills, 2...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Riverside Inn, Chester, Mass.
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  Railroad Station
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  Main Street Bridge (Westfield River)
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  Bird's Eye View of Chester, Mass., Looking North
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  Main Street, 1910
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  Old Tannery Dam
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  The Berkshire Hills, near Chester, Mass., 1912
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  Main Street looking East, 1912
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• 1916
  Chester, a post-village of Hampden co., Mass., on a branch of the Westfield River and on the Boston and Albany R., 28 miles WNW. of Springfield. It...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Blue Door Tea Shop
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  Huntington Road
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  Grammar School
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  High School & Library
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• 1975 - August 2 - 107°F (42°C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)
  
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• 1981 - January 12 - 35°F, Chester, Massachusetts (state record)
  
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