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The Sunderland Center Historic District encompasses the historic center of the farming town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, on the plains of the Connecticut River.The multi-acre district runs along North and South Main Street (Massachusetts Route 47), roughly from Old Amherst Road to North Silver Lane, and includes Bridge Street and the Sunderland Bridge across the river.
Sunderland is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States, part of the Pioneer Valley. The population was 3,663 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sunderland was first settled in 1713 and was officially incorporated in 1718.
In 1797 the world's first patent ropery (producing machine-made rope, rather than using a ropewalk) was built in Sunderland, using a steam-powered hemp-spinning machine which had been devised by a local schoolmaster, Richard Fothergill, in 1793; [36] the ropery building still stands, in the Deptford area of the city.
The Archives operates the Commonwealth Museum to educate and display some of its collections of important documents about state and national history. [5] The main permanent exhibit is entitled "The Massachusetts Experiment in Democracy: 1620–Today", and traces the Massachusetts experience through the Colonial, Revolutionary, Federal, and 19th century reform periods.
Church on the Hill, in Berkshire County House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, Essex County Sankaty Head Light, in Nantucket Faneuil Hall, Boston, Suffolk County The Flying Horses Carousel, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County The Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge, Hampshire and Worcester Counties The PT 796, Fall River, Bristol County The Alvah Stone Mill, Montague, Franklin County
Historical Journal of Massachusetts 43#2 (2015), pp. 2+. online; Bush, George Gary. History of higher education in Massachusetts (1891), detailed coverage for all types. online; Freeland, Richard M. Academia's Golden Age: Universities in Massachusetts, 1945–1970 (1992) online; Morison, Samuel E. Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 (1936) online
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This is despite a £250million capital development budget for the University [16] and will shutter the centre, which is a heritage and history of glassmaking at Sunderland since the 7th century. [15] As a consequence, the University announced on 22 March 2024 that its glass and ceramics academic programme will close in summer 2026.