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History of Easthampton, Massachusetts, USA

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Where is Easthampton, Massachusetts, USA?

• Easthampton was first settled by European immigrants beginning in 1664 and was originally considered part of Northampton.
  
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• In 1785, the village of Easthampton was formally named its own separate political entity.
  
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• 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...
  
  
  
• 1845 - EASTHAMPTON. [Pop. 717. Inc. 1809.]
  Easthampton was taken from Northampton and Southampton.
  
  Manhan River enters the Connecticut in this town.
  
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• 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...
  
  
  
• 1854 - East Hampton
  East Hampton, a post-township of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, on the W. side of Connecticut river, 80 miles E. by S. from Boston. Population,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1864 - Easthampton's first high school and first national bank opened.
  
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• 1869 - Easthampton Town Hall is built.
  
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• 1881 - Easthampton Public Library opened.
  
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• 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...
  
  
  
• 1895 - East Hampton
  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 ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  One Dollar
  Name Suspenders
  Sawyer & Wolf
  Easthampton, Mass.
  
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• 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.
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  Park and Main Streets
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  Easthampton From Mt. Tom, Mass.
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  Easthampton, Mass. A view on Glendale Street.
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  U.S. Post Office, Easthampton, Mass.
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  Mills of the Hampton Co.
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  High School, 1905
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  Main Street Looking North
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  Notre Dame R. C. Church
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  Town Hall
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  Nashawannuck Pond, 1906
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  Town Hall and Methodist Church, Main Street, 1907
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  Railroad Crossing, Union Street, 1907
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  The Gymnasium, Williston Seminary
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  Button Shop, Glendale and Nashawannuck, Easthampton, Mass.
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  Cottage St.
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  First Congregational Church and Chapel
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  Easthampton Mass., Public Library
  Pretty girls,
  pretty girls
  everywhere,
  But
  EASTHAMPTON BELLES
  are claimed
  most fair.
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  Church of the Immaculate Conception
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  Main and Park Streets looking South
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  Summit House, Mt. Tom, Near Easthampton, Mass.
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  Grand Stand, Sawyer Field
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  Williston Avenue
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• In 1912, a new high school was built in Easthampton.
  
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  Mayher Fountain and Park
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• 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...
  
  
  
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  German Hall
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  Nashawannuck Manufacturing Co.'s Office
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  St. Philip's Episcopal Church
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