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The Whately Center Historic District encompasses the historic rural village center of Whately, Massachusetts.Located in the hills west of the Connecticut River and north of Northampton, the district consists of a stretch of Chestnut Plain Road, the main north-south route through the village, and a short stretch of Haydenville Road, which is roughly at the center of the district.
Whately is located 11 miles (18 km) south of Greenfield, 26 miles (42 km) north of Springfield, and 95 miles (153 km) west of Boston. Whately lies along the western banks of the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley. The western part of town is hilly, with the highest point being the 980-foot (300 m) Mount Esther.
The West Whately Historic District is a historic district encompassing over 700 acres (280 ha) of western Whately, Massachusetts.The area, located in the foothills of The Berkshires above the Connecticut River, has a long agricultural history, but also experienced a surge of industrial activity in the 19th century, of which only fragments remain.
Before the fire that set Melissa Lamesch 's home ablaze on Nov. 25, 2020, the day had started with excited anticipation. Melissa was due to give birth to a baby boy in just two days, and ...
Officials placed bans on Massachusetts as it faced over 100 brush fires in the last week and an enhanced brushfire risk.. Over 120 brush fires have burned around 450 acres in the state in the last ...
This is a list of villages in Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically. In Massachusetts, villages usually do not have any official legal status; all villages are part of an incorporated municipality (town or city - see List of municipalities in Massachusetts ) which is the smallest official form of government.
Anyone violating the burn ban can be cited and fined $100 plus $183 court costs. Anyone found responsible for starting a fire could be held responsible for the cost of extinguishing it.
Its town meetings were held at the town church ("meeting-hall") until 1841; a town hall was constructed in Knightville in 1842. [ 4 ] : 12 Town meetings were held at a private Union Hall above a schoolhouse in Huntington village in the 1860s; the building burned in 1863 but was replaced [ 4 ] : 12 and the new building served as the town hall ...