Volume One covers the history of the Connecticut Valley; its topography and geology, the early explorers and the establishment of the first towns, and its military history. Volume One continues with the history of Hampshire County including the towns of Northampton, Amherst, Easthampton, Westhampton, Southampton, Hadley, South Hadley, Ware, Hatfield, Williamsburg, Plainfield, Cummington, Worthington, Middlefield, Goshen, Chesterfield, Huntington, Belchertown, Greenwich, Granby, Pelham, and Prescott. Volume Two presents the histories of Franklin and Hampden Counties. Franklin County includes the town histories of Greenfield, Deerfield, Montague, Orange, Shelburne, Northfield, New Salem, Conway, Sunderland, Bernardston, Buckland, Hawley, Charlemont, Whately, Leverett, Ashfield, Coleraine, Leyden, Shutesbury, Gill, Erving, Rowe, Warwick, Wendell, Heath and Monroe. Hampden County includes the town histories of Springfield, West Springfield, Holyoke, Westfield, Chicopee, Palmer, Brimfield, Wilbraham, Monson, Ludlow, Longmeadow, Agawam, Chester, Wales, Blandford, Granville, Southwick, Montgomery, Russell, Holland, Tolland, and Hampden. All town histories contain biographical sketches of prominent citizens. The combined volumes also contain close to 500 portraits and views of prominent citizens and localities. The first CD contains all of Volume One; the second contains Volume Two and eighty-five illustrated biographical sketches.
Louis H. Everts
(1879), 2007, CD-ROM, Graphic Images, Searchable, Adobe Acrobat v6, PC or Mac, 1160 pp.
ISBN: 9780788429255
101-CD2925
