Book/Printed Material Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses. To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large.
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Image 7 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … RATED. 7o The Elstner PublishingCo rr. Springfield.M/vss.
- Date: 1890
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Image 8 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … ^Xi i I 1 AN D M^E S SOIV, Manufacturers of SPHIX(ilMELl)MASii i*
- Date: 1890
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Image 9 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. A CONCISE RESUME OF THE NATURAL FEATURES AND PAST HISTORY OK THE COUNTIES OF HAMPDEN, HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN, BERKSHIRE, THEIR TOWNS, VILLAGES, AND CITIES, TOGETHER WITH A CONDENSED SUMMARY OF…
- Date: 1890
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Image 10 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … f\lsTS5 /V \tt of S/irimrfif/il Prititini; atiii Riniliii^ Coiiifi/iny.
- Date: 1890
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Image 11 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … PREFACE. SOME keen observer has said that brevity is the soul of wit. A fit- ting emendation may be formulated in the words, condensation is the grand secret of conveying instruction. Diffusiveness…
- Date: 1890
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Image 13 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … CONTENTS, PAGES MASSACHUSETTS 7-16 THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY 17-19 HAMPDEN COUNTY 20 City ok Springfield. 21-38 Springfield Representative Houses 39-95 Brightwood 96, 97 Indian Orchard 98,99 West Springfield 100-102 Agawam 102 \Vestfield 103-113…
- Date: 1890
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Image 15 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … MASSACHUSETTS. THE STATE AT LARGE— TOPOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE— A BRIEF HISTORICAL SYNOPSIS. T~ HE eastern coast line of Massachusetts is about 300 miles in length, one-half of which belongs to Cape Cod;…
- Date: 1890
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Image 16 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … 8 INM.AM) MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. height of 2,0 1 8 feet. The liills to the eastward diminish in magnitude we approach the coast, and though numerous are of small consequeni except in the…
- Date: 1890
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Image 17 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS Il.LUSl R AlED. 9 Lawrence. The Watuppa ponds furnish power for the Fall River mills. The Taunton empties into Narragansett bay. The Ipswich rises in Essex county, the Mystic in…
- Date: 1890
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Image 18 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … lO INLAND MASSACHUSKTTS ILLLSTKATKl). while at Princeton in Worcester county, 1,150 feet above, it falls to 22°; but the valleys and level country at a distance from the mountains enjoy a temi)erature…
- Date: 1890
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Image 19 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. II senters from the state church of England, persecuted for opinion s sake, retired first to Amsterdam and later to Leyden, Holland, in 1607-S, where they enjoyed unrestricted liberty…
- Date: 1890
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Image 20 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … 12 IM.AM) .MA SACHLSKirs ILIAS I RA l El). suffered terrible liardships and i)rivati )ns llie first winter, and ere the summer of 1621 arrived forty-three of the original one hundred and…
- Date: 1890
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Image 21 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. I3 tion, Stern, uncompromising, fanatical in upholding liberty of conscience for themselves, came to America for the purpose of founding a state the corner-stone of which should be absolute…
- Date: 1890
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Image 22 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … 14 INLAND MASSACHL 1. 1 1 ILLUSTRATED. Pequots, through whose inlluence and statesmanship the various New Enghmd tribes were united, and in 1675, all being prepared, the long- expected (jutbreak occurred and…
- Date: 1890
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Image 23 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. I5 British parliament, tlie object being to ff^xe a tax from Americans upon all paper, vellum, and parchment used in the colonies. The opposition was instant and general; all…
- Date: 1890
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Image 24 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … l6 INLANIJ MASSAC HUSKTTS ILLUS IRATKl). 1 783, occurred in 1786. One man was killed in its suppression. The war of 181 2 was a serious blow to Massachusetts interests, and was…
- Date: 1890
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Image 25 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY. T^HAT portion of the Connecticut valley lying in Massachusetts aver- ages about forty miles in width, and from Vermont and New Hamp- shire on the north to Connecticut on…
- Date: 1890
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Image 26 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … IS IM.ANJ) .MAh Al IlL M-. 1 1 ILLUSTRATED. the Wampanoags of the east shore of Xarragansett bay the Xansets of Cape Cod the Xarragansetts and Xvantics on the west shore of…
- Date: 1890
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Image 27 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. 1 9 with a view to a reasonable profit. His field of usefulness was not, however, to be so circumscribed, and in the course of time he so gained…
- Date: 1890
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Image 28 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … HAMPDEN COUNTY. THE county of Hampden is the most populous and important of those formiui? the western division of the State Hamjiden, Hampshire, I rankliii, and Ut-rksliire and was the first settled.…
- Date: 1890
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Image 29 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETIS II.IA S IR ATED. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD. THE SPRINGFIELD OF THE PAST EARLY SETTLEMENT THE PVNCHONS IN- DIAN TROUBLES THE REVOLUTION COUNTY ORGANIZATION A BRIEF GLANCE AT NOTABLE EVENTS. In…
- Date: 1890
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Image 30 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHLSKT lS ll.I.LSl R ATKI). never had been any serious trouble here between the races, and none was anticipated even on the outbreak of Philip s war, so that when a…
- Date: 1890
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Image 31 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. 23 Congress April, 1794, and four years later the Legislature consented to the purchase of the land, 640 acres, now belonging to the government and upon which stand the…
- Date: 1890
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Image 32 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … 24 IMAM) MASSACHUSKTTS ILLUSTRATED. The initial steps looking to the erection of the present court-house (illustrated in these pages) were taken in 1871. The l)uilcling, of Monson granite, was rinished in 1874,…
- Date: 1890
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Image 33 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRAIKD. 25 The handsome villa of J. H. Appleton, Esq., president of the River- side Paper Company of Holyoke, is one of the most attractive in Spring- fiel(l,and wasdesigned by…
- Date: 1890
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Image 34 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … 26 INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. MANUFACTURES. A recent brochure from the pen of W. H. Chapin on Springfield, Massachusetts gives the subjoined approximate figures on manufact- ures aside from railroad rolling stock and…
- Date: 1890
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Image 35 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHL SETTS ILLUSTRATED. 27 CI O 10 00 00 (-1 CI ro r^ -t i^ -f O O ro Tj- ly-i u-i o ON Oco O •^-r^r^O rj-ro 00 O fi…
- Date: 1890
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Image 36 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … 28 INLAND MA^bACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. FINANCES. The financiiil condition of Springfield is shown by the subjoined state- ment of the city treasurer, covering the period from September lo, 1888, to September 16, 1889.…
- Date: 1890
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Image 37 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. 29 RECAIMTUL VTION. Total real estate $32,000,680 Total personal estate Resident bank shares 8,652,340 Total valuation $42,073,575 TAX LEVY. Rate per $1,000 at $13.00 $546,956 Polls, 12,126 at $2.00…
- Date: 1890
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Image 38 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … 30 INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED receive manual instruction in the mechanic arts, sewing, drawing, etc. Several evening schools and a drafting school are in successful operation. Ph\ siologv, hygiene, and scientific temperance instruction,…
- Date: 1890
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Image 39 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. 3I BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. While every community is more or less burdened with the unfortunate, Springfield the city of homes and of industrious people justly claims a greater degree of…
- Date: 1890
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Image 40 of Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history … 3^2 INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. metrojiolis of Massiichusetts. But the three roads were under separate and inharmonious managements, and in order to their proper develop- ment it became necessary to consolidate a suggestion…
- Date: 1890