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Amherst loses old houses
Article from the Springfield Republican describing the houses that once stood around the Town Common and at other areas near the center of…
Park and college
Looking south across Town Common toward Amherst College. Written on verso: common enclosed with fence 1860 -- see Hampshire Franklin Express 6/15/1860 p.2. Note: photograph date between 1860 and…
Mounted men at celebration
Group of men on horses in front of the flagpole on the town common which was dedicated on July 4, 1899. Names written on back of photograph: Leonard M. Hills, Dr. Perry, Dr. Gates, Charles Edward, George Thayer, Fred Hawley, Julius Trott, Dr. E.M.…
Grassy Common
View of the very grassy south end of the Town Common with College Hill and the end of Boltwood Avenue in the background. Stated in "The History of the Town of Amherst, Massachusetts" by Carpenter and Morehouse: "For many years the grass grown on the…
Fenced Common
View of the sunken and grassy and fenced-in south end of the Town Common with College Hill in the background. Stated in "The History of the Town of Amherst, Massachusetts" by Carpenter and Morehouse: "North of College Hill the common was used as…
Town Common and wagon
Lengthwise view of the Town Common in winter with trees empty of foliage, a fountain, and a wagon in the foreground…
Town Common after the fire
The crowded Town Common after the fire of July 4, 1879. The Amherst Record of July 9, 1879 stated, "The scene on the common about daylight was a novel one. Everything from the stores had been carried there, and deposited without much regard to…
Shady Town Common
View of the length of Town Common from north to south. Boltwood Avenue is on the left and South Pleasant Street on the right.…
Town Common and fountain
Town Common in summer with Boltwood Avenue on the left and water fountain in the foreground.…
Town Common looking north
Looking north across the Town Common with College Street (dirt) in foreground and Phoenix Row in background.…
Town Common and path
Town Common with a view of the Grace Episcopal Church and rectory with a footpath in the foreground.…
Town Common after the fire
The crowded Town Common after the fire of July 4, 1879. The Amherst Record of July 9, 1879 stated, "The scene on the common about daylight was a novel one. Everything from the stores had been carried there, and deposited without much regard to…
Town Common after the fire
The crowded Town Common after the fire of July 4, 1879. The Fire Department is in the lower right corner. The Amherst Record of July 9, 1879 stated, "The scene on the common about daylight was a novel one. Everything from the stores had been carried…
Merchants' Row from Town Common before 1879
View of Merchants' Row from the Town Common before the fire of July 4, 1879.…