This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...20,1723, when the Rev. James Stone was ordained pastor. During the winter of 1753-4 a great sickness prevailed here; when, out of a population of about four hundred, 53 deaths occurred in the space of six weeks. On the 4th of January ten persons lay unburied. The soldiers from this town who fell in the late war for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...20,1723, when the Rev. James Stone was ordained pastor. During the winter of 1753-4 a great sickness prevailed here; when, out of a population of about four hundred, 53 deaths occurred in the space of six weeks. On the 4th of January ten persons lay unburied. The soldiers from this town who fell in the late war for the Union are honored by a monument to their memory. Holmesdale, a village in Pittsfield. Holmes Hole, a village in Tisbury. Holmes Holl, a village in Falmouth. IT s T T" TZT" is a modern, enterprising and growing " city, situated on the west side of the Connecticut River, and midway of the north side of Hampden County, 106 miles west of Boston. It is bounded on the north by Easthampton and the Mount Tom district, east by South Hadley and Chicopee, south by West Springfield, aud west by Westfield and Southampton. It contains 8,700 acres of assessed land, including 1,762 acres of forest. The western section is somewhat mountainous, but there are no peaks of great elevation. Ashley's Pond, covering about 96 acres, and Hitchcock's Pond, about 58 acres, in the southwestern section, each have outlet through Black Brook. The city water-supply is from these ponds. The northwestern section of the town is drained by Broad Brook. The geological formation is middle shales, sandstone and dolorites. The 71 farms in 1H85 had an aggregate product $122,544 in value. The remarkable growth and prosperity of Holyoke are due almost wholly to the great fall of the Connecticut River here, which is computed to afford 30,000,000 horse-power. It is only a few years that this power has been controlled and made subservient to manufactur ing uses. Until 1847, the fall of the Connecticut at South Hadley about sixty feet) was neglected. At that time a party of ...
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