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The North Amherst Library was the first free public library in Amherst, initially sustained through membership dues instead of an endowment. It was established in 1873, and has been located at its current address on Montague Road since 1891. The building is part of the North Amherst Center Historic District. The North Amherst library became a ...
The North Amherst Center Historic District encompasses the center of North Amherst, part of the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. It is a well-preserved example of a traditional farming village, centered at the five-way junction of Meadow, Pine, and North Pleasant Streets, and Sunderland and Montague Roads. The area developed as a village center ...
Roswell Field Putnam was born in Leverett, Massachusetts, on 20 May 1840, the son of a farmer, Timothy Putnam, and his wife, Sarah Field (Bangs) Putnam. [1] He was apparently named after Roswell Field (1767–1842), a magistrate and trial justice for Franklin County, Massachusetts, who represented the town of Leverett in the state legislature for many years.
North Amherst is located in the northern part of the city of Amherst at (42.406192, -72.521217 It is bordered to the south by the Amherst Center CDP and to the southwest by the town of Hadley . The CDP border follows the Mill River north from the Hadley town line, then east across Massachusetts Route 116 as far as Massachusetts Route 63 .
Leverett is one of the southernmost towns of Franklin County, located west of Shutesbury and Wendell, east of Sunderland, south of Montague, and north of Amherst. Leverett was originally part of Sunderland (named Swampfield at that time). The first non-indigenous settlement was established in 1750, and the settlers officially petitioned ...
North Amherst Center Historic District: North Amherst Center Historic District: December 13, 1991 : 1184-1136 N. Pleasant St., 1-39 Pine St., 11-13 Meadow St. Amherst: 47: North Cemetery: North Cemetery
Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Coordinates: 42.3906°N 72.5277°W. The center of the UMass Amherst campus. To the left is the Old Chapel, and to the right is the W. E. B. Du Bois Library. The campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is located nearly entirely in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, with a portion ...
The W. E. B. Du Bois Library holds resources primarily in humanities and social and behavioral sciences. At 28 stories and 286 feet 41⁄8 inches (roughly 88 m) tall, it is the third-tallest library in the world after the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta at 414 feet (126 m) and Shanghai Library in China at 348 feet (106 m).