Dedicated to the
Honor and Sacrifice
Of Our Men and Women
Who Served Our Country
In
All
Wars
Erected by
B.P.O.E.
No. 997
Dedicated June 9
1985 — — Map (db m194967) WM
To perpetuate the memory of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski an American Revolutionary War Hero, who, from wounds received at the siege of Savannah, Georgia, died on October eleventh, 1779.
This memorial is erected in testimony of . . . — — Map (db m138431) WM
1872 Born Plymouth, Vt.
1895 Graduate, Amherst College
1897 Admitted Mass. Bar Assoc.
1898 City Councilor, N'ton
1901 City Solicitor, N'ton
1906, 1907 State Rep, Mass.
1909, 1910 Mayor, City Of N’Ton
1911--1914 State . . . — — Map (db m194792) HM
Orators ... are usually flattered by having a numerous audience, but I am ashamed of the one before me.... Are there men to whom, the death of their fellow beings is a spectacle of pleasure, an object of curiosity? So preached Father . . . — — Map (db m194800) HM
This building is the remaining portion of the old
Draper Hotel
The first inn on this site was built by Asabel Pomeroy in 1792. Purchased by Oliver Warner in 1821 it became the Warner House, a celebrated stop on the Boston and Albany . . . — — Map (db m230495) HM
Northampton is the "Shire Town" or county seat for Hampshire County. When it was officially established in 1662, Hampshire County became the fifth county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The county originally included all of Western Massachusetts. . . . — — Map (db m194797) HM
Jonathan Edwards is often remembered as the stern Puritan who preached fire and brimstone sermons such as his notorious "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Yet Edwards was also America's preeminent thinker of the 18th century. Besides being a . . . — — Map (db m194872) HM
Liberty Tree Memorial Planted in honor of those who lost their lives in the tragic events on September 11, 2001 The American Liberty elm was named after The Liberty Tree" : Our Country's first Symbol of Freedom. On the morning of August 14, 1765, . . . — — Map (db m194969) HM
This building is a fine example of Classical Revival style popularized by the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Calvin Coolidge 30th President 30th President of the United States, practiced law here from 1898 to 1918 with the firm of Coolidge and Hemenway. — — Map (db m230491) HM
For Native Americans of Southern New England in the 17th century, life was centered in the village, a kinship grouping of extended families rarely numbering more than 300 to 500. There were no formal "tribes," but cooperation among villages took . . . — — Map (db m194799) HM
( west side )
Spanish-American War
Barbour, Frank E. · Barrett, Thomas J. · Belleville, Alfred · Cole, Eugene F. · Collins, Henry · Cranston, Charles H. · Crowley, John R. · Dragon, Raoul F. · Eastwood, Daniel W. · Farnham, Fred S. · . . . — — Map (db m194942) WM
In 1660 Medad Pomeroy accepted an offer of tools, an anvil shaped like this replica, and land in exchange for opening a blacksmith shop in Northampton. That anvil was passed through many generations of Pomeroy blacksmiths becoming a symbol of the . . . — — Map (db m194966) HM
Pomeroy Terrace Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m194970) HM
To perpetuate the memory of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski, an American Revolutionary War hero, who, from wounds received at the Siege of Savannah, Georgia, died on October eleventh, 1779.
This memorial is erected in testimony of respect by . . . — — Map (db m194943) HM
During the late 18th century, the site of Pulaski Park was used extensively for public auctions and as a congregating place for horse traders. Public announcements were made there, and tradition has it that news of the British attack on Lexington . . . — — Map (db m138434) HM WM
During the years 1786 and 1787, a series of confrontations took place between desperate debtor-farmers and state government authorities in western Massachusetts. The events that became known as Shays' Rebellion came to symbolize the widespread . . . — — Map (db m194795) HM
Until the mid-eighteenth century, Northampton was primarily a market town, with few commercial establishments. The first shop to open on "Merchants' Row," directly across lain Street, was an apothecary established in1769 by Levi Shepherd. Benjamin . . . — — Map (db m194871) HM
Lydia Maria Child: Garrisonian Marooned
Maria was one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and a thoroughly committed abolitionist. She and her husband David moved to Northampton in 1838 in an attempt to produce beet . . . — — Map (db m194990) HM
The Puritan settlers of Northampton built their first meeting house in 1655 on a site near the present-day Courthouse. Eleazar Mather, cousin of Boston's Cotton Mather, became the town's first minister in 1658. A new meeting house was built . . . — — Map (db m194874) HM
Built in 1856 as a gas holder and gas processing facility for the City of Northampton. Restored in 1986 by Robert G. Curran, civil engineer and native of Northampton. It is one of seven such existing structures in the U.S. and its restoration has . . . — — Map (db m218925) HM
(Private Residence, Not Open to the Public). The original structure on this site was built by Rev. The Manse as it appeared in the 1930s: included most of the land on the southeasterly side of Round Hill. Stoddard was called to Northampton in 1669 . . . — — Map (db m194971) HM
Start of
“The Musante Mile”
Honoring
David B. Musante, Jr.
the “Walking Mayor” who inspired
the renaissance of downtown Northampton
1980 – 1992 — — Map (db m194965) HM
On the corner across Center Street, at 135 Main, stands the Old Bank, designed by William Fenno Pratt and built in 1866. Its cast iron front was a modern innovation at the time. It was here that the largest bank robbery in the history of the . . . — — Map (db m194870) HM
The semi-circular stone below was the step of
The Third Meeting House
1737 • 1812
Here Rev. Jonathan Edwards Preached
1727 • 1750 — — Map (db m194925) HM
By the mid 19th century the simple elegance of Northampton's buildings began to give way to the tastes and fashions of a new era of commercialism. William Fenno Pratt, who designed many of the Victorian buildings on Main Street, conceived of the . . . — — Map (db m138436) HM
Commercial development along upper Main Street followed the industrial expansion spurred by the Civil War. As Northampton became a manufacturing center, its business district expanded to accommodate a growing and changing population. In the 1860s . . . — — Map (db m138438) HM
The Academy of Music, built in 1891, was a gift to the city from Edward H.R. Lyman. It was designed as an opera house by William Brockelsby. With its rich terra cotta facade, it echoes the neo-classical style of the Italian Renaissance. In 1912, a . . . — — Map (db m138493) HM
