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Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to themselves as "towns" even though they have a city form of government. [1] The Census Bureau classifies towns in Massachusetts as a type of "minor civil division" and cities as a type of "populated place". However, from the perspective of Massachusetts law ...
The Connecticut River, looking southward over Sunderland from Deerfield. Map of the towns of the valley, showing U.S. census New England City and Town Area micropolitan districts of Amherst (in pink) and Greenfield (in orange), and the Springfield metropolitan NECTA (in yellow).
A map of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, c. 1912. The campus extends about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Campus Center in all directions. The university owns significant amounts of land in the neighboring towns of Sunderland and Hadley. [2] The campus may be thought of as a series of concentric rings.
Western Massachusetts has diverse topography; 22 colleges and universities including UMass in Amherst, MA, with approximately 100,000 students; [1] and such institutions as Tanglewood, the Springfield Armory, and Jacob's Pillow. The western part of western Massachusetts includes the Berkshire Mountains, where there are several vacation resorts.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system , and was founded in 1863 as the Massachusetts Agricultural College .
A streetcar for the Amherst and Sunderland Street Railway crosses Amherst Center, in front of the town hall, c. 1903.. The earliest known document of the lands now comprising Amherst is the deed of purchase dated December 1658 between John Pynchon of Springfield and three native inhabitants, referred to as Umpanchla, Quonquont, and Chickwalopp. [7]
The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.The university system includes six campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, a medical school in Worcester and a law school in Dartmouth), a satellite campus in Springfield [5] [6] and 25 smaller campuses throughout California and Washington with the University of Massachusetts ...
The Amherst Central Business District is a historic district encompassing the heart of downtown Amherst, Massachusetts.Centered on the northern section of the long town common, the area has been the civic and commercial heart of the town since the 18th century.