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Amherst, Hampshire, MA
Amherst is located in Hampshire County, 20 miles north of Springfield. Amherst is adjacent to Hadley and from the time it was settled in the 1730's to 1759, it was part of Hadley. In 1759, it was organized as a separate district, which was incorporated as a town in 1775. The name honors Lord Jeffrey Amherst, a hero of the French and Indians Wars. u-s-history.com
Included in Amherst are: Mill Valley, Norwottuck, Cushman, East Village, and Factory Hollow.
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- 1703 - Amherst settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - 1845 - AMHERST. [Pop. 2,550 Inc. 1759]
Amherst was once the eastern part of Hadley.
A flourishing college was established here in 1821.
Two small streams that fall into the...Read MORE... - 1854 - Amherst
Amherst, a post-township of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, 82 miles W. of Boston, intersected by two branches of the Connecticut river, affording...Read MORE... 
1857 - AMHERST COLLEGE fire.
Amherst College, Mass., Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1857.
Last evening, (Monday), Amherst was the scene of a sadly destructive fire. At twenty minutes past...Read MORE...- 1859
AMHERST, a township in Hampshire, co., Massachusetts, 7 m. E by N of Northampton, 82 m. W of Boston; in N lat. 42 22 15, W long. 72 31 28. Pop....Read MORE... - 1863 - UMASS
University of Massachusetts chartered at Amherst.
www.e-referencedesk.com/ resources/ state-history-timeline/ massachusetts.html - 1879 - THE FIRE AT AMHERST. THE BUILDINGS BURNED, WITH A LIST OF SOME OF THE INSURANCES.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 5. - The incendiary fire at Amherst yesterday morning burned propery[sic] valued at from $75,000 to $100,000. The property...Read MORE... - Amherst Massachusetts, 1890
Amherst, territorially, is a long narrow township in the northern part of Hampshire County, 84 miles west of Boston. It is bounded on the north by...Read MORE... - 1895 - Amherst
Amherst, a township of Hampshire co., Mass., is noted for its beautiful scenery and educational institutions. It contains villages named Amherst...Read MORE... 
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
Postcard- 1901 - October 29 - In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
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The New Barn, M. A. C. Amherst, Mass.
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Amherst, a banking post-village of Amherst township (town), Hampshire co., Mass., on the Central Vermont and the Boston and Maine Rs., 9 miles NE. of ...Read MORE... 
Awaiting the Rope Pull, M.S.C., Amherst, Mass.
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 (South Amherst) - The New Barn, M. A. C. Amherst, Mass.)
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Awaiting the Rope Pull, M.S.C., Amherst, Mass.
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1703 - Amherst settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1845 - AMHERST. [Pop. 2,550 Inc. 1759]
Amherst was once the eastern part of Hadley.
A flourishing college was established here in 1821.
Two small streams that fall into the... Read MORE...
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1854 - Amherst
Amherst, a post-township of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, 82 miles W. of Boston, intersected by two branches of the Connecticut river, affording... Read MORE...
1857 - AMHERST COLLEGE fire.
Amherst College, Mass., Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1857.
Last evening, (Monday), Amherst was the scene of a sadly destructive fire. At twenty minutes past... Read MORE...
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1859
AMHERST, a township in Hampshire, co., Massachusetts, 7 m. E by N of Northampton, 82 m. W of Boston; in N lat. 42 22 15, W long. 72 31 28. Pop.... Read MORE...
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1863 - UMASS
University of Massachusetts chartered at Amherst.
www.e-referencedesk.com/ resources/ state-history-timeline/ massachusetts.html
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1879 - THE FIRE AT AMHERST. THE BUILDINGS BURNED, WITH A LIST OF SOME OF THE INSURANCES.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 5. - The incendiary fire at Amherst yesterday morning burned propery[sic] valued at from $75,000 to $100,000. The property... Read MORE...
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Amherst Massachusetts, 1890
Amherst, territorially, is a long narrow township in the northern part of Hampshire County, 84 miles west of Boston. It is bounded on the north by... Read MORE...
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1895 - Amherst
Amherst, a township of Hampshire co., Mass., is noted for its beautiful scenery and educational institutions. It contains villages named Amherst... Read MORE...
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1901 - October 29 - In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
historyorb.com
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1916
Amherst, a banking post-village of Amherst township (town), Hampshire co., Mass., on the Central Vermont and the Boston and Maine Rs., 9 miles NE. of ... Read MORE...
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