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For several years between 1870 and 1880 the United States Fisheries Commission conducted experiments in hatching shad near the old ferry landing, but the insatiable greed of the Say- brook fishermen rendered it impossible to determine whether the number of shad in the river was increased thereby.
In 1875, a few years before the rapacious fishermen of the Nutmeg state had barred the shad from its native haunts an answer was found to an old, old question. At the time when "shad blows" bloomed along the river bank and the shad were running, there always appeared great numbers of insects about the size of dragon flies with white, wormlike bodies and ganzy white wings, which hovered in swarms innumerable over the surface of the water. To fishermen the why and wherefore of the coming of these "shad flies," as they were called, was a much guessed on but, for many generations, an unsolved riddle. It was an accepted fact that the shad never took food after it left salt water and entered the river, and, of course, the fish had no use for the fly, for all its name.
There was then and now again living in Holyoke, though South Hadley Falls claims him, a Scotch papermaker named Thomas Chahners, who, like Miller, Dick, Edwards and many others of his countrymen, found time before and after the day's labor to make a masterful study of natural sciences in nature's own school.
There was little about birds and beasts and fishes which Chalmers had not learned by original discovery in the early mornings or late afternoons and often by night.
Ile studied the shad fly and the shad and in 1875 made an artificial shad fly, which he attached to a hook. From a boat
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anchored near the old pier, below the Holyoke bridge, he offered the hook to a passing shad. Like a flash, that old question was answered and another game fish had been found to test the ang- ler's skill.
One afternoon in the following spring he was called from the loft of the paper mill to see two gentlemen in the office. One introduced himself as Benjamin F. Bowles of Springfield and the other was an army officer connected with the armory.
Mr. Bowles said, "Last year I got an anonymous letter from Holyoke saying, 'There's a man up here taking shad with a hook. Come up and see him,' but I knew someone was trying to fool me. This year I've got another letter and now I've come up to see about it. I understand that you are the man that has done the trick. Will you let me see you take one ?" Mr. Chalmers said, "I'll let you take as many as you want, yourself." They accordingly went out on the river and within half an hour, Mr. Bowles had taken a four pounder. He was an enthusiastic fisher- man and spread news of the discovery throughout the world of sportsmen. Seientists from the Smithsonian Institute and other halls of Ichthyology, as well as anglers of high degree and wide repute, during May and June of each year, joined the common herd of Holyoke and Sonth Hadley folks who lined the down- stream sidewalk of the bridge, intent on hooking a shad, until Connecticut put an end to the sport. It is a enrions fact that, since the shad have been lost from the river, the number of shad flies has gradually diminished until now none appear and only the "shad blow" remains as a memorial of the daintiest fish that swam our Connecticut.
It will be of interest in taking this survey of what has been done by the good people of Sonth Hadley to know how many there were of them at different epochs.
In 1776, there were 584; in 1790, 759; in 1800, 801 ; in 1810, 902; in 1820, 1047; in 1830, 1185; in 1840, 1458; in 1850, 2495; in 1855, 2051; in 1860, 2277; in 1865, 2099; in 1870, 2840; in 1875, 3370; in 1880, 3538; in 1885, 3949; in 1890, 4261; in 1895, 4443, and in 1900, 4526.
We know, within a few months, the time when the first native born Americans settled in South Hadley and who they were, but of the pioneer arrivals of other nationalities we are less informed.
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The first Irishman mentioned in the town annals is undoubt- edly the revolutionary soldier, Peter Pendergrass, whose name is probably a Yankee corruption of Pendergast, a proper, Irish family name.
However that may be, the first known and avowed Irish citizen of the town was Patrick Spellman, who, during the early thirties of the last century, lived in the basement of the then newly built Methodist Church which is now called Foresters' Hall. He married an American widow, with a family of children, who was the village candymaker, and worked for Howard & Lathrop.
Ile was killed by falling through a trapdoor in the paper mill and was buried in the new village cemetery, where a stone, erected by his fellow workmen, perpetnates his memory.
Patrick Murphy, whose widow died two years ago, was the next exile from Erin who found a home in South Hadley. Ile was at work for Alonzo Lamb in 1839 and was employed in building the Cook's Hill road.
Our venerable citizen, Charles Ranenberg, was the first German resident of the town, having come to the Falls in 1849 to accept the position of overseer in the new Glasgow mill.
The Bohemian, Joseph Suhanek, came to the Falls as a boy in the early fifties and served on the town's quota in the civil war. Not long after his return be became partner and then sole owner of Joseph Bardwell's meat market. He was for some years town clerk. Once, when summoned as witness in a case before the Superior Court at Northampton, he produced his book of records. Charles Delano, then leader of the Hampshire bar, was the op- posing counsel, and he took the book to show the judge, saying that it was the most beautifully kept record that he had ever seen produced in court. Snhanek, before he was fifty, had made his fortune and removed to Hartford, where he soon afterwards died.
Our present efficient town clerk, Martinus Madsen, came to town, the pioneer Dane, in 1887.
It is impossible to name with certainty the first comer of the French, who form so large and public-spirited an element of the town's inhabitants, but Louis Lafontaine, who enlisted in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, early in the war, was probably the man.
The first Italian to make his home in South Hadley was, undoubtedly our veteran fruit dealer Paul Veto.
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The Polanders, who give promise of making an industrious and thrifty addition to our population will, doubtless, by the year of the town's bi-centennial, have become Americanized and freed from many useless and unpronounceable consonants in their names.
But, while we recount the new peoples who have come in to make the South Hadley of the future, let us not forget the passing of old family names that for generations have had a large place in the annals of the town.
Gone are the Woodbridges, the Goodmans, the Montagues, the tuneful Ingrahams, the Bowdoins, the Gilletts, the Nashes, the Cooleys, the Lathrops, the Abbeys, the Robinsons, the Warrens, the Carews; in all Taylor Field and South Hadley, no Taylor survives, and Falls Woods, once teeming with Alvords, now can show but one.
But time demands the close of this imperfect sketch of the town's story.
Only too gladly would we take a forward look and see the South Hadley of another half-century but no Mt. Nebo is vouch- safed us and, trammeled with mortality, we can only hope that, when twice more
Has passed the human harvest To its garner green and low,
the generations yet to come will give as high honor to the men and women of this day as we so gladly render those who founded and built up South Hadley.
A PRIVATE CARRIAGE IN THE PARADE.
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INDEX
TO R. O. DWIGHT'S ADDRESS.
PAGE
Academy, South Hadley.
112
Alarm at Capture of Fort William Henry
50
Alvord, Broughton. 104
Alvord, Elijah, Lays Out Road Around Great Falls. 59
Alvord, Elijah, Innkeeper in Falls Woods. 60
Alvord's, Elijah, Warehouse at Mouth of Stony Brook. 60
Alvord's, Elijah, Suit for Logs Seized by British Officers. .
58
Ames, David, Paper Maker. 86
Ames, David, Jr. and John, Paper Makers
86
Ames, David, Jr. and John, Their Public Spirit.
91
Baptist Church, Planned by Daniel Lamb
75
Baptist Church at Chicopee Falls
92
Bardwell, Alonzo, His Tannery.
83
Bardwell's Agricultural Tool Factory
84
Bardwell's Saw and Grist Mill.
84
Bardwell's Charters for Bridge to Holyoke.
112
Bardwell, Josiah, Merchant.
76
Bardwell's River Dam and Mills.
Bardwell, Damon & Co., Salt Dealers
90
Bardwell, Ely & Co., Boating Company.
104
Bardwell Street Laid Out.
121
Belfry and Bell for South Hadley Church.
71
Bird Tracks in Stone Discovered at Moody Corner
79
Blodgett's Forge.
84
"Board Road" Laid Around the Great Falls 59
Boating Companies on Connecticut River
104
Bohemian, the First Resident in South Hadley
128
Boundaries of South Hadley
6:2
Boundary Line Between South Hadley and Granby
61
Bowdoin, William, Lawyer
96
"Brick Chapel," Built.
Brick Yards in South Hadley Falls.
99
Bridge to Holyoke, Charters for a Toll.
112
Bridge to Holyoke, Free, Authorized and Built. 113
Bridge to Holyoke, Free, Rebuilt. 115
Bridge, Eastman 78
Burial Ground at South Hadley Center Laid Out.
49
Burial Ground at South Hadley Center Discontinued. 123
Burial Ground on River Road Dedicated by Rev. John Pendleton 76
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Burial Ground at South Hadley Falls
104
Butt, Sheribiah Owns a Sulphur Spring. 80
Cambridge, Caesar, Negro, Buys His Freedom1.
Canal Around the Great Falls Constructed. 72
. 64 -
Canal, Completion of and Celebration. 65
Canal, Inclined Plane and Grand Carriage 66
Canal, Proprietors of, Indicted for Maintaining a Nuisance. 68
Canal Opened for Business. 63
Canal Lowered and Provided with Locks. 68
Canal, Money for Improvements raised by Lotteries, 68
Canal, Second Dam Built at Head of. 69
Canal, Third Dam Built. . 69
Canal, Litigation Over Building of Dam
69
Canal, First Fishway Ever Built 69
Canal, Fourth Dam Built. 69
69
Canal Sold to the Hadley Falls Company. 70
Canal, "Getting Boats Out at the Head of". 105
Canal Tavern, History and Description of. 87
Canal Tavern Sold. 107
Canal Tow Path, a Public Pleasure Ground.
110
Canal Village, South Hadley 67
Canal Village, a Pleasure Resort.
67
Canal Village Described by President Dwight.
67
Canal Village a Distributing Point for Eastern Hampshire.
104
Carew, Joseph.
86
Carew and Damon, Salt Merchants.
90
Carew Manufacturing Company Incorporated.
109
Carew Street Laid Out in Part.
77
"Carriage Hill".
59
Cautions to New Comers to Leave Town.
56
Cemetery, Evergreen.
123
Cemetery, Notre Dame.
123
Cemetery, Precious Blood.
123
Cemetery, St. Rose.
123
Chalmers, Thomas, First Takes Shad with a Hook
127
Chinaware, Sellers of Licensed and Taxed.
56
Church, First at the Center, Built.
49
Church, Second, Controversy Over Site of
51
Church, Second Built.
52
Church, Third Built.
103
Church, Third, Burned
103
Church, Fourth Built.
103
Church, Fourth, Burned. 103
Church, Fifth Built. 103
Church of South Religious Society Built. 91
Church, Methodist Episcopal Built. 91
Church, First Congregational of South Hadley Falls, Built. 122
132
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Canal, Litigation Over Building of the Dam.
PAGE
Church of South Religious Society Sold to the Methodist Society Church, Saint Patrick's Built.
122
122
Church, Saint Patrick's Moved to Main Street. 192 Church's Ferry 91
Civil War, South Hadley's Soldiers in.
118
Clark, Ephaphras, Lawyer.
95
Coal, Anthracite, Traces of in South Hadley.
79
Coal Mining Leases in Falls Woods and Canal Village.
79
Coffee Sellers Licensed and Taxed. 56
Cold Hill, Probable Effect of Building Second Church on. 522
Common at South Hadley Center in 1785.
Concord and Lexington Alarm.
62
Conflagration of Business Portion of Center Village
103
Congdon, Weld & Co.
110
Cook's Hill Road, History of.
94
Cooley, Ariel, Lessee of the Canal.
69
Cooley, Ariel, Probable Builder of the Brick Chapel.
Cooley, Ariel Builds First Fishway
69
Cooley, Ariel, Gives Long Lease of Site for Schoolhouse
Cooley's Heirs, Ariel, Sell Their Rights in Canal
Court of General Sessions, Criminal Records of.
108
Dam Gives Way.
108
Dam, the Second Built by Hadley Falls Company
109
Dane, the First Resident in South Hadley
128
Day, Henry, Lawyer of New York City
49
Deer Killing in Close Season Punished.
55
Districts Incorporated Instead of Towns
49
Doctors of South Hadley
97
Doolittle, Mark, Lawyer
95
Dwight, Dr. Elihu.
97
Dwight, President, Description of South Hadley Canal
67
Eastman Bridge.
Eastman Road to Granby.
123
Faber, John Lewis.
85
Fairbanks and Brothers Buy Site of Holyoke.
107
Falls Woods Field Laid Out.
51
Falls Woods Road Laid Out.
59
Falls, Great, Road Around Refused. 59
Falls, Great, a Private Road Around Anthorized. 59
"Fandango," Harry Robinson's Invention of. 106
Ferry, Lyman's, Established. 60
Ferry, Rock, Established.
61
Ferry, Lyman's, Becomes Church's Ferry. 91
Fire District Established at the Falls. 118
71
Dam, the First Built by Hadley Falls Company
Death, the First in South Hadley
Evergreen Cemetery Association.
Falls Woods, Early Settlement of.
133
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Fish, a Haul of.
124
Fishing at the Great Falls in Early Days.
57
Fishing by the Old Sluggard. Company 124
Fishing Company Formed by Owners of River Bank 1:26
Fishing, Open Season for. 125
Fishing for Shad with a Hook
126
Fishing Wharves on the River. 124
Fishing, End of the Shad in 1886. 126
Fisheries on Connecticut River, Legislation to Protect. 70
Fish Hatching at the Falls. 126
Fishway Invented and Built by Ariel Cooley.
69
Forge Bridge
St
Free Public Library Established. 123
French and Indian Wars.
50
Frenchman, the First to Reside in South Hadley 128
Game, Wild, South of Mt. Holyoke.
46
Gaylord, Emerson.
SS
Gaylord, John.
SS
Gaylord Memorial Library Association 1:23
Gaylord, William H. 123
Gaylord Street Laid Out.
5-4
German Resident, the first.
128
Glasgow Company Incorporated.
109
Goodman, Noah.
63
Granby Incorporated as a Town
61
Granby Road Laid Out.
78 122
Hadley Settled
45
Hadley, Territory of.
45
Hadley Grants Land South of Mt. Holyoke.
46
Hadley, Territory of South of Mt. Holyoke.
46
Hadley Votes to Lay Out Land South of Mt. Holyoke.
47
Hadley Falls Company Organized.
107
llale, Chauncey, Turkey Hunter.
117
Hampshire and Hampden Railroad Company
106
Hampshire Paper Company Incorporated.
118
Ilauling Freight Around the Great Falls
60
Hauling Out at the Head of the Canal
105
Hauling Over Willimansett
105
Haul of Shad on South Hadley Falls Beach. 1:24
Hayes, Rev. Joel Third Minister of South Hadley £1
Holyoke Dam, the First One, Built. 10S
Holyoke Dam, Manner of Construction. 108
Holyoke Dam, the First Breaks Way 10%
Holyoke Dam Rebuilt. 109
Holyoke, the Site of, Purchased. 107
134
Granby and South Hadley Boundary Line.
61
Granby State Highway
General Sessions of the Peace Records of.
PAGE
Hooker, Edward, Lawyer.
95
Houses Near the First Church. 53
Houses on West Side of the Springfield Road 53
Houses on West Side of the Common.
71
Howard and Lathrop's Paper Mill. - 85
Howard and Lathrop's Rivalry with D. & J. Ames.
89
Howard and Lathrop's Lawsuit About Water Rights. 68.
Howard and Lathrop's Failure and Burning of the Mill.
90
Howard Gaylord & Co.
119
Indians, the River.
45
Indians, Flight of from the Valley.
45
Indian Trails South of Mt. Holyoke.
46
Ingraham, Capt. Ebenezer Hauled Over Willimansett
105
Ingraham, Obediah P., Postmaster of Canal Village.
53
Innholders in Falls Woods Field.
60
Innholders in Taylor Field.
57
Innholders Licensed by Court of General Sessions of the Peace
56 128
Irishman, the First to Reside in South Hadley
Italian, the First to Reside in South Hadley 128
Japanese Tissue Paper Mill.
Judd Brothers' Paper Mill.
Lafontaine, Louis, First French Resident.
128
Lamb, Daniel, Innkeeper and Landholder.
75
Lamb, Daniel, Plans to Build a Baptist Church.
75
Lamb, Daniel, Petitions for Incorporation of Religious Society Lamb, Daniel, Death of.
103
Lamb's Landing, Tolls to from Chicopee River.
104
Land Grants South of Mt. Holyoke Made by Hadley.
46
Land South of Mt. Holyoke Described.
46
Land South of Mt. Holyoke Laid Out by Hadley.
47
Land South of Mt. Holyoke Distributed to Proprietors of Hadley
Land South of Mt. Holyoke Divisions of.
45 99
Landers Brothers, Brickmakers.
Lathrop, Paoli, Breeder of Short Horn Cattle.
90
Lathrop, Paoli, His Cattle and Famous Pasture.
90
Lathrop Street Laid Ont.
in
Lathrop, Wells, Begins Market Gardening in South Hadley
90
Lawyers of South Hadley.
95
Library Association, Gaylord Memorial.
1.20
Library, Free Public. 123
Lining Out the Psalms and the New Style of Music.
Liquor Selling Licenses Granted by Court.
Logs Floated Down Connecticut River.
Logs, Elijah Alvord's Suit for, Against the King's Officers.
Lord's Day, Failure to Attend Publie Worship on, Punished. 51
. Lord's Day, Unnecessary Labor and Travel Upon, Punished. 51
Lotteries Granted to Raise Money for Canal
135
76
Innholders at South Hadley Center
PACE
Lyman Road Laid Out.
60
Lyman's Ferry Established. 60
Lynch Brothers, Brick Makers.
Lyon, Mary and Mt. Holyoke Seminary 99 100 Lyon, Mary, Death of.
102
Main Street, South Hadley Falls, Raised.
120
Madsen, Martinus, First Danish Resident.
128
McGrath, David F., First Pastor of St. Patrick's Church.
122
Mail Coach Through the Canal Village
88
Manufacturing in South Hadley in 1837
89
Market Gardening Begin by Wells Lathrop 90
Methodist Episcopal Church Organized 91
Methodist Episcopal Church Built.
91
Miller, Joel, Deputy Sheriff
96
Mining Leases at Canal Village.
79
Minister, Failure to Settle, Pelham Indicted for
54
Minister, the First, Rev. G. Rawson.
49
Minister, the Second, Rev. John Woodbridge
19
Minister, the Third, Rev. Joel Hayes
71
Minister, the First of the South Religious Association 91
91
Minute Men of South Hadley
62
Moody, Pliny, Discovers Bird Tracks in Stone
79
Mormon Family in South Hadley
93
Mormon Meeting. 93
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary Incorporated. 101
Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, Site for, Selected.
101
Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary Building Erected.
101
Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary Opened for Pupils
102
Mt. Holyoke College Hall Burned
102
Mt. Holyoke College, the New.
103
Mount Holyoke Lodge, F. and A. M.
119
Murphy, Patrick, an Early Irish Resident
128
Music, New Style of Church, Taught by John Stickney
71
Names of Old Families lost from South Hadley
129
Negroes, Slave and Free, in the Connecticut Valley
72
Newton Street Laid Out.
121
Northampton and Springfield Railroad Corporation
106
Notre Dame Cemetery 228
85
Old Sluggard Fish Company
124
Orphanage Established in Connection with St. Patrick's Church. .. 122
"Palmer House," History of. 86
Parsons, Joseph C.
86
Parties, Political, Among the Early Settlers
48
Pearl Button Manufactory
84
Pearl City. 85
Pearl Paper Company
136
Oil Mill at South Hadley Canal.
Minister, the First of the Methodist Episcopal Church
PAGE
Pelham, Town of, Indicted for Not Having Settled Minister
54
Pendergrass, Peter, Soldier of Two Wars.
73
Pendergrass, Probably the First Irish Resident
_128
Pendleton, Rev. John, Gives Burial Ground
76
Physicians, Oldtime, of Hadley.
97
Physicians of South Hadley Center.
97
Physicians of South Hadley Falls.
97
Physicians, Thompsonian. 97
Pine Logs Floating Down the River
5S
Plane, Inclined and Grand Carriage of Canal 66
Plan of South Hadley in 1794.
80 .80
Polish Population of Town.
129
Pomeroy, Titus, First Innkeeper in Taylor Field.
129
Population of the Town at Various Periods
127
Postmaster O. P. Ingraham.
ES
Precinct, South, of Hadley, Established.
4S
Precinct, Second of South Hadley, Established
32
Precious Blood Cemetery.
123
Proprietors of the Locks and Canals Incorporated.
6-4
Proprietors of the Locks and Canals Sell Canal
70
Public Landing Laid Out in Taylor Field
59
Pynchon Grant Made and Surveyed
45
Pynchon Grant or Farm Sold to John Taylor
56
Quebec, Joy Over the Capture of. .
51
Railroad Company, Northampton and Springfield. 106
Railroad Company, Hampshire and Hampden. 106
Rannenberg, Charles, Brick Maker .. 99
Rannenberg, Charles, First German Resident. 123
Rawson, Rev. Grindall, the First Minister 19
19
Red Shop, History of the Old.
115
Revolution, South Hadley in the.
63
Richard's, E. T., Brickmaker
99
Road, Cook's Hill.
Road, Eastman.
Road, Granby.
Road, Ludlow
Road, Lyman
60
Road, Springfield, Old and New.
59
Robinson, Asabel, Brickmaker.
99
Robinson, Harry, Invents the "Swing Ferry"
92
Robinson, Harry, Invents the "Fandango"
106
Robinson, Rufus, Master Riverman
116
Rock Ferry Established.
61
Salmon Fishery. 5:
Salt First Put Up in Bags for Sale.
137
Road, South Hadley to Taylor Field.
Rawson, Rev. Grindall. Expelled from the Pulpit.
Plan of South Hadley in 1831.
PAGE
Salt House of Josiah Bardwell
90
School Appropriations in Early years
53
School Districts Abolished. 120
School, High. 121
School for Boys, the Woodbridge.
.100
School for Girls, Miss Abbie Wright's
74
Schoolhouse, the First, Built. 53
Schoolhouse, the First, Later History of. 111
Schoolhouse at Falls Woods Built.
53
Schoolhouse at Falls Woods, New.
111
Schoolhouse of South Middle District
111
Schoolhouse at the Canal Village, First.
Schoolhouse at Canal Village, Second
78
Schoolhouse at Canal Village, Third.
112
Schoolhouse at Canal Village, Later History of the Second.
112
Schoolhouse, Grammar, at South Hadley Falls, Built.
112
Schoolhouse, "White," Built at South Hadley Falls
111
Schoolhouse, Grammar, Built at Center Village.
120
Schoolhouse Built at Pearl City. 120
Schoolhouse to Accommodate Six Schools Built at South Hadley Falls
121
Shad Fishing in the Olden Time
57
Shad Fishing in Later Days.
124
Shad Fishing by the Beach Owners
126
Shad Fishing by Old Sluggard.
124
Shad First Taken with a Hook.
127
Shad Fishing Ended in 1886. 126
126
Shad Hatchery
126
Shad, Prejudice Against by First Settlers
57
Shays' Rebellion.
63
Shays' Retreat Through South Hadley
64
Short Horn Cattle Bred by Paoli Lathrop
90
Slavery, Negro, in Hampshire County
84
Smith, "King" Hiram
104
Soldiers' Monument. 123
South Hadley, Division of Land in
South Hadley, Settlement of
48
South Hadley's First Burial Ground.
49
South Hadley Incorporated.
49
South Hadley's First District Meeting
50
South Hadley's Strife Over Location of Second Church
51
South Hadley in the Revolution. 63
South Hadley's Declaration of Independence 63
South Hadley's Minutemen. 62
South Hadley Fined by the General Court.
138
Shad Flies, Their Coming and Disappearance.
Smith, Erastus F.
Smith, Benjamin F., Maker of Pearl Buttons
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South Hadley's Boundaries
62
South Hadley's Population at Various Dates 127
South Hadley's Manufactories in 1837. 89
South Hadley Academy.
112
South Hadley's Soldiers' Monument
- 123
South Hadley Free Public Library
123
South Hadley Canal Village.
67
South Hadley Falls.
110
South Precinct of Hadley Established.
49
South Religious Society Organized and Church Built. 91
Southworth, Edward. 88
12S
Spring, Lithia.
Spring, Sulphur. 80
47
Springfield Road, the New
47
Springfield Road Partially Discontinued.
121
Stage Coach for Amherst to Springfield.
SS
State Highway from the Falls to the Center
122
State Highway from the Falls to Granby.
122
Steamboats on the Connecticut ..
103
Steamboat Explosion at Smiths Ferry.
105
Stickney, John, Teacher of "the New Music"
71,
Stony Brook, Mouth of, a Shipping. Port.
60
Stony Brook Paper Company S1
St. Patrick's Church Built.
122
Street Railway, Holyoke.
121
Street Railway to Fairview.
121
Street Railway to South Hadley Center.
121
Street Railway to Amherst
192
Strong, David.
104
Strong, Maltby.
S2
St. Rose Cemetery.
123
Sulphur Spring.
SO
Swing Ferry Invented.
92
Suhanek, Joseph, First Bohemian Resident.
128
Tanneries
S3
Taylor, John, Buys Pynchon Farm.
57
Taylor, John, Divides His Real Estate Among His Sons.
57
Taylor Field, Description of.
57
Taylor Field, the Fishing at.
57
Taylor Field's First Innkeeper
37
Taylor Field's First Wedding
57
Taylor Field's Great Falls.
57
Taylor Field's Population in 1760.
57
Tea, Coffee and Crockery Sellers Licensed.
56
Taylor, Cook & Co. 115
Thompsonian Doctors. 98
139
Spellman, Patrick, First Irishman at Canal Village
SO
Springfield Road, the Old.
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Tow Path of the Canal, a Public Pleasure Ground.
110
Turkeys, Wild.
117
Veto, Paul, First Italian Resident.
128
War, French and Indian
50
War, Revolutionary.
- 63
War, Civil
11S
Water Works at South Hadley Falls.
118
Willimansett Rapids, Hauling Boats Over.
105
Woodbridge, Rev. John, Second Minister of Town.
49
Woodbridge, Col. John.
63
Woodbridge, Ruggles.
72
Woodbridge Manufacturing Company
Woodbridge School for Boys.
100
Woodlawn Laid Out.
121
Woolen Mill on Stony Brook.
S1
Worthington, John, King's Attorney.
56
Wright, Abbie, and Her School for Girls.
74
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Wharves for Fishing
124
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