History of Enfield, Massachusetts, USA*

Enfield, Massachusetts
Hampshire county. Swift river passes through this town and adds much to its beauty and importance.—The manufactures of this place, the year ending April 1, 1837, amounted to $182,669. The articles consisted of cotton and woolen goods, leather, boots, shoes, hats, hoes, shingle machines, palm-leaf hats, wool cards, cotton batting and wicking. The value of wool grown was $1,090. Enfield lies 71 miles W. from Boston and 15 E. from Northampton. Population, 1837, 1,058.

Enfield was taken from Greenwich and Belchertown. It is watered by Ware River and one of its branches. Its chief manufactures are cotton and woollen goods, wool-cards, boots and shoes, and palm-leaf hats.

Distance from Northampton, 15 miles; from Boston, 75.

Enfield, a post-township of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, 90 miles W. by S. from Boston, intersected by Swift river. Population, 1036.

ENFIELD, a township in Hampshire co., in Massachusetts, 75 m. W by S of Boston, on Swift river. Pop. 976.

Enfield is a farming town of varied and picturesque scenery, lying in the easterly part of Hampshire County, near 100 miles west of Boston. It is bounded on the north by Pelham, Prescott and Greenwich, east by the latter and Hardwick, south by Ware, and west by Belchertown and Pelham. The assessed area is 10,041 acres, of which 2,471 is woodland.

Ridges of high and wooded land extend from north to south through the town, and through the valleys intervening flow Swift River and two or three small tributaries. Beaver Brook, having its origin in Sunk and Morton Ponds, flows southerly from the southeast section. These streams furnish motive power for a woollen factory and several saw and box mills.

The farms — 89 in number — yield fair crops in the usual variety; and these, with the dairies, domestic animals and the poultry yard, yielded an aggregate product, in the census year of 1885, valued at $75,118. The valuation in 1888 was $606,210; with a tax of $9 on $1,000. The population ...

Enfield, a post-village of Hampshire co, Mass., in Enfield township, on Swift River, and on the Springfield, Athol & Northeastern Railroad, 27 miles N.N.E. of Spring field. It has 2 churches, and manufactures of cassimere and flannel. Pop. of the township, 1065

Athol, Mass., Oct. 19. - The town of Enfield was visited to-day by a fire which wiped out the whole business part. The fire started in a bakery, presumably from an overheated oven.