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  History of Southampton, Massachusetts, USA

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• 1732 - Southampton is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1839 - Southampton
  Southampton, Massachusetts
  Hampshire county. Manhan river waters the town and affords it mill privileges. The Farmington canal passes through the eastern part. Lead in various forms and qualities is found here, and here is a subterraneous passage leading to the lead mine in Westhampton. There are...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - SOUTHAMPTON. [Pop. 1,157. Inc. 1753.]
  Southampton was originally a part of Northampton.
  
  It is watered by the Manhan, a branch of the Connecticut, that curves through the town.
  
  The chief curiosity is a tunnel under a hill, excavated by miners in search of lead. The search did not repay the labor; but many curious...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Southampton
  Southampton, a village in Hampshire co., Massachusetts, 95 miles W. by S. from Boston, contains 1 or 2 churches, and an academy. Population of the township, 1000.
  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.
  
  
• 1890 Southampton Massachusetts
  Southampton, in the southerly part of Hampshire County, 115 miles west of Boston, and nine miles southwest of Northampton, has Westhampton and Easthampton on the north, the latter and Holyoke on the east, Westfield on the south, and Montgomery and Huntington on the west. The number of inhabitants...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Manhan Falls
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  Congregational Church
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  Town Hall
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• 1906
  Southampton, a post-village in Southampton township (town), Hampshire co., Mass., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 8 miles SSW. of Northampton. Pop. of the town in 1900, 1012.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
  
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  Congregational Church and Sheldon Academy
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  Paradise, Southampton, Mass.
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•  1964 - SEN. KENNEDY INJURED IN PLANE CRASH. AIDE AND PILOT KILLED WHEN LIGHT CRAFT MEETS DISASTER AT MASSACHUSETTS AIRPORT.
  Southampton, Mass. - (UPI) - Sen. EDWARD M. KENNEDY, suffered a broken back and two other men were killed when a light plane crashed Friday night in dense fog in an apple orchard.
  
  KENNEDY was in fair condition at Cooley-Dickinson Hospital in nearby Northampton.
  
  Doctors said, "There are no...Read MORE...