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Amherst
1907
1997.08.01.0125
Although not the road where most of the businesses
developed, Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts,
was, nonetheless, a vital connecting route for people
and commerce.
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Ashfield
1999.03.0072
Ashfield House is one of the few small town tavern buildings that survived from the 18th to the 20th centuries intact.
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Athol
c. 1907
M.29
This view of School Street in Athol, Massachusetts, shows a wide, tree-lined street that was not paved at the turn of the 20th century.
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Bernardston
1912
1997.08.01.0012
Floats like these, in a parade celebrating the 150th
anniversary of the founding of Bernardston, Massachusetts,
in 1912, are an American custom dating back to the
18th century.
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Charlemont
1997.08.01.0065
The town of Charlemont, Massachusetts, was settled in the mid 18th century. The site was mainly chosen because of its proximity to easily harnessed streams to power grist and saw mills.
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Colrain
1907
1997.08.01.0101
This 1907 view of the center of Colrain, Massachusetts, shows the Colrain Community Church, built 1834, to the right, and to the left the A.C. Smith & Son Store.
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Conway
1908
1999.03.0073
Main Street, like River Street, was laid out during the original settlement of Conway.
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Greenfield
c. 1910
1999.03.0008
The Connecticut Valley Street Railway was part of an interconnecting trolley system that provided inexpensive and convenient statewide and interstate travel.
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Hadley
1906
1997.08.01.0052
This bridge links Hadley, Massachusetts, with Northampton and is over one-half mile long.
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Holyoke
c. 1905
1997.08.01.0055
Hampton Ponds, on the border between Westfield and Southampton, was an important recreation spot for the workers of Holyoke, Massachusetts, who could reach it by electric trolley.
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Montague
1997.08.01.0106
The second town hall of Montague, Massachusetts, located at Montague Center. Built 1858, the hall is still standing, although it is not still used for town functions.
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Northampton
1997.08.01.0111
Older forms of transportation give way to new, just as older, Victorian architecture gives way to the modern era.
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Northfield
1908
1997.08.01.0115
The commercial center of Northfield, Massachusetts, Webster Block included a post office, telephone exchange, the Northfield Press, and a collection of stores.
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Orange
1997.08.01.0118
By the turn of the 20th century Orange, Massachusetts, was a prosperous and civic-minded town, one of the three largest in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
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Rowe
1906
1997.08.01.0123
The main street of the village of Rowe, Massachusetts, on a summer day in 1906 shows how the modern trends of electricity and the automobile penetrated rural areas.
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Shelburne Falls
1999.03.0075
Trolleys were responsible for giving residents, farmers and manufacturers a link to the railroad.
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South Deerfield
1910
1997.08.01.0121
This view of the Center of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, dates from 1910. The tall elms decorating the street and small park will soon be dead due to Dutch Elm disease.
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Turners Falls
1997.08.01.0124
A 1900 view of Turners Falls, Massachusetts, shows the spires of the first Catholic churches to be built in Franklin County, symbols of a strongly immigrant community.
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West Springfield
1923
1997.08.01.0016
A photographer for the Springfield News captured this image of the Massachusetts Statehouse replica and the midway at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1923.
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