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Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA
"East Hampton, a post-town of Hampshire co., Mass., on the Connecticut River Railroad (East Hampton Branch), and on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad £ division), 71 miles N. of New Haven, and 17 miles N.N.W. of Springfield. It contains 5 churches, a national bank, the Williston Seminary, a newspaper office, and manufactures of buttons, suspenders, rubber goods, steam pumps, silk tress-goods, whips, and cotton yarn. The Connecticut River touches the E. border of the township. Pop. in 1890, 4395."
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
"East Hampton, a post-town of Hampshire co., Mass., on the Connecticut River Railroad (East Hampton Branch), and on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad £ division), 71 miles N. of New Haven, and 17 miles N.N.W. of Springfield. It contains 5 churches, a national bank, the Williston Seminary, a newspaper office, and manufactures of buttons, suspenders, rubber goods, steam pumps, silk tress-goods, whips, and cotton yarn. The Connecticut River touches the E. border of the township. Pop. in 1890, 4395."
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
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- Easthampton was first settled by European immigrants beginning in 1664 and was originally considered part of Northampton.
www.wikipedia.org - In 1785, the village of Easthampton was formally named its own separate political entity.
www.wikipedia.org - 1809 - Easthampton officially became a town.
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1845 - The Gale at Easthampton, Mass.
It is a matter of astonishment that no injury to person or life was the consequence of the disaster to the new seminary building at Easthampton. The...Read MORE...- 22. EASTHAMPTON. [Pop. 717. Inc. 1809.]
Easthampton was taken from Northampton and Southampton.
Manhan River enters the Connecticut in this town.
Mount Tom, the head and...Read MORE... - 1847 - The Williston-Knight Button Company, was established in Easthampton by Samuel Williston, son of the town’s first minister, a Congregationalist named Payson Williston.
The company specialized in cloth-covered buttons – a coveted item at the time – and to facilitate the operation of the machinery, a local brook was...Read MORE... - 1864 - Easthampton's first high school and first national bank opened.
www.wikipedia.org - 1869 - Easthampton Town Hall is built.
www.wikipedia.org - 1881 - Easthampton Public Library opened.
www.wikipedia.org - Easthampton Massachusetts, 1890
Easthampton is a delightful and prosperous manufacturing, educational and farming town in the southern part of Hampshire County, on the New Haven and ...Read MORE... 
One Dollar
Name Suspenders
Sawyer & Wolf
Easthampton, Mass.
The Ladies' Home Journal
November 1898- In 1899, the West Boylston Manufacturing Company and the Hampton Company, both specializing in cloth production, moved to Easthampton, recruiting a larger immigrant labor force, particularly from Poland and Canada.
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Nashawannuck Square, Easthampton, Mass.
Park and Main Streets
Easthampton From Mt. Tom, Mass.
Easthampton, Mass. A view on Glendale Street.
U.S. Post Office, Easthampton, Mass.
Mills of the Hampton Co.
High School, 1905
Main Street Looking North
Notre Dame R. C. Church
Town Hall
Nashawannuck Pond, 1906
Town Hall and Methodist Church, Main Street, 1907
Railroad Crossing, Union Street, 1907
The Gymnasium, Williston Seminary
Button Shop, Glendale and Nashawannuck, Easthampton, Mass.
Cottage St.
First Congregational Church and Chapel
Easthampton Mass., Public Library
Pretty girls,
pretty girls
everywhere,
But
EASTHAMPTON BELLES
are claimed
most fair.
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Main and Park Streets looking South
Summit House, Mt. Tom, Near Easthampton, Mass.
Grand Stand, Sawyer Field
Williston Avenue- In 1912, a new high school was built in Easthampton.
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Mayher Fountain and Park- 1916
Easthampton, a post-township (town) of Hampshire co., Mass., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Maine Rs., 4} miles S. by W....Read MORE... 
German Hall
Nashawannuck Manufacturing Co.'s Office
St. Philip's Episcopal Church
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