History of Northampton, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Northampton, Massachusetts, USA

(Florence)

• 1654 - Northampton is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1656 - Northampton is incorporated
  
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• 1818 - 3 County Fair
  The 3 County Fair was established in 1818.
  
  
•  1823 - FIRE.
  On Friday morning last, the Woolen Factory, at Northhampton, belonging to Messrs J. & C. Cook, was destroyed by fire, with all its contents, although ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Residence of Jos. Bowers, Northampton, Mass.
  Source: Print Collection portrait file. / B / Jos. Bowers
  Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
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• 1845 - NORTHAMPTON. [Pop. 3,750. Inc. 1654.]
  Northampton, whose Indian name was Nonotuck, formerly included East, West, and Southampton, and is the county town as well as the largest in the c...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Northampton
  Northampton, a beautiful post-village and seat of justice of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River railroad, 17 miles N. from Spri...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1855 - FIRE IN NORTHAMPTON.
  The dwelling house, barn and shop belonging to Moses Breck, was burned to the ground at midnight, Monday night, undoubtedly the work of an incendiary....Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1866 - July 10 - Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
  
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•  1868 - Patent Shoe-Pegger
  A patent shoe-pegger is being manufactured in Northampton, Massachusetts, which makes the hole, cuts off the peg and drives it home. A workman can eas...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1870 - Fire
  The Warner House, at Northampton, Massachusetts, with ten stores and saloons adjacent, were burned early yesterday morning. The inmates of the hotel b...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1870 - FIRES - Stores in Northampton, Mass., Burned--Loss $50,000.
  SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 20 - The Edwards Church and the Hunt Building, at Northampton, were totally destroyed by fire last night. The loss is about $5...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1874 - May 16 - The Mill Creek disaster occurred west of Northhampton MA. Dam slippage resulted in a flash flood which claimed 143 lives, and caused a million dollars property damage.
  
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•  1878 - Tornado
  NORTHAMPTON, Mass., July 17.- The town is almost despoiled of its beautiful shade trees, mostly large elms, for which it is noted, there being some 15...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  1880s
  Crown Sewing Machines and Florence Oil Stoves
  The Florence Machine Co.
  Florence, Mass.
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• 1883 - Northampton is incorporated as a city
  
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• Northampton Massachusetts, 1890
  NORTHAMPTON is a beautiful city of large territory, situated on the west side of the Connecticut River, in the midst of Hampshire County, of which it ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• March 22, 1893: First women's basketball game was played at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts
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• 1895 - Northampton
  Northampton, a beautiful post-village, capital of Hampshire co., Mass., nearly 1 1/ 2 miles W. of the Connecticut River, 17 miles N. by W. of Springfi...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  What Tooth Brush? The Prophylactic of Course
  Florence Manufacturing Company
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•  1900 - FELL DOWN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT
  Serious Accident to J. F. Barry in a Northampton Hotel Last Evening.
  
  J. F. Barry of the firm of J. S. Barry & Son, proprietors of the Hampton hotel...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1900 - Fires at Northampton and Amherst.
  The engine-house number was struck on the fire alarm bell at Northampton at 1 o'clock yesterday because of a forest fire near Park hill. Several acres...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Upper Main Street near Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
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  Main Street
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  Hampshire County Court House, Northampton, Mass.
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  Northampton, Mass. Glimpse of Main Street, showing Draper Hotel.
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  Northampton, Mass. Smith College. Morris House
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  Carnagie Hall
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  Hockanum Ferry
  Mt. Holyoke in distance
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  High School
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• 1906
  Northampton, a city, capital of Hampshire co., Mass., on the Connecticut River, 17 miles N. by W. of Springfield, on the Boston and Maine and the New ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Connecticut River Bridge, 1906
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•  1907 - RUNAWAY AT NORTHAMPTON - Horses Dash Along Railroad Tracks for a Mile and Scatter People at Union Station.
  A sensational runaway, in which a span of horses scattered the people standing about the union station at Northampton and ran for a mile on the railro...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Bridge Street, 1909
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  First Church, 1909
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  Academy of Music
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  Cherry Street, East, 1910
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  Public Library
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  Plymouth Inn
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  Main Street, View from City Hall, 1911
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  Hadley Bridge, 1913
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  Edwards Church
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  Post Office
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•  1924 - FUNERAL SERVICES BE TOMORROW AFTERNOON FOR PRESIDENT'S SON
  CALVIN COOLIDGE, JR., DIED MONDAY NIGHT AT WALTER REED HOSPITAL
  
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  Washington, July 8. - Tentative plans for the funeral of Calv...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Talbot House, Miss Capen's School
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  Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge
  Dedicated October 12, 1939
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  Look Memorial Park
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