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4 North Main Street
P.O. Box 387
South Hadley MA 01075
413-536-4970

Open May-September: Sunday 1:30-4:00 p.m.
Open July-August: Wednesday 1:30-4:00 p.m.

Directions to the museum:
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=4+North+Main+Street,+South+Hadley,+MA
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Officers 2009-2010

President: Ned Noel
Vice President: Mark Larrow
Recording Secretary: Ruth Thornton
Corresponding Secretary: Jo Wojnarowski
Treasurer: Mary Lawler
Curator: Diane LaRoche
Librarian: Connie Clancy
Director (3 years): Donna Tower
Director (2 years): Ann Root
Director (1 year): Jo Wojnarowski

Blog Archive

  • ►  2011 (2)
    • ►  February (2)
      • Click here for our new website
      • Beechwood was post-war jumpin' joint
  • ▼  2010 (35)
    • ►  May (1)
      • 1936 flood
    • ►  April (5)
      • Town athletes have a storied legacy - Click HERE o...
      • Click HERE for terrific photos of Holyoke
      • South Hadley Historical Society Newsletter - April...
      • World War II museum in Natick - not South Hadley, ...
      • The state South Hadley census for 1905
    • ►  March (6)
      • "Creating Holyoke" Click HERE
      • March 2010 Historical Society newsletter - Click H...
      • Pelham Program for 2010
      • Many South Hadley residents worked at the National...
      • Hadley Historical Society - 2010 Program
      • Hadley Historical Society - Annual letter for 2010...
    • ▼  February (13)
      • Historical Perspectives: The Irish in Early Holyok...
      • William H. Gaylord, founder of the Gaylord Memoria...
      • "Fun on the Ferry" - Click HERE
      • Regicide Jurists in Hadley - Click HERE
      • “The Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Connec...
      • Does anyone know the source of the (Village) names...
      • Newsletter - February 2010 - Click HERE
      • Howard and Lathrop Paper Company - Click on story ...
      • Old photo - 6 North Main Sreet - James Bertam
      • Mary Frances Buckhout McVay 1910 - 2010
      • "New England Travels" has posts of interest to Sou...
      • Remembering Lou Conti - See the two pages below or...
      • "Cool Machines for Cooler Planet" Radio Show & Pod...
    • ►  January (10)
      • Louis Conti 1934-2010 - Click here for an excerpt ...
      • "Taken From His Grave By Persons Unknown" - Click ...
      • The Valley Advocate: News - Craven Boosts Dinosaur...
      • Driftwood
      • Thank you to Bill Owens! Click HERE to visit Bill...
      • Old mill, South Hadley Falls
      • The South Hadley Canal - Thanks again to Bill Owen...
      • "...the children might like a visit out to South H...
      • PVHN Survey Results Summary
      • Slavery in Colonial Amherst - January 21, 2010
  • ►  2009 (117)
    • ►  December (8)
      • Connecticut River Scenic Byway - Click HERE
      • The history of the current Black Stevens Conservat...
      • 52 North Main Street, and more
      • A Labor of Love: Community project turns into trib...
      • Nash Dino Land, South Hadley - Click HERE
      • Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadle...
      • Do you need to transfer videotapes to DVD?
      • Creating Holyoke: Voices of a Community
    • ►  November (5)
      • Elliot B. Lyman Portrait Whereabouts?
      • Archiving the Collection News by Mary Lawler
      • Historical Society Party December 14, 2009 - Click...
      • Mr. Newton Smith - Click here
      • From Martha Terry RE November 12 Know Your Town me...
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  • 2009 (28)
  • Amherst (2)
  • Belchertown (3)
  • Bill Cary (7)
  • Buildings (3)
  • Cemeteries (2)
  • Churches (1)
  • Civil War (3)
  • Connecticut River (2)
  • Dinosaurs (5)
  • Families (14)
  • Ferry (1)
  • Fire Department(s) (3)
  • Fires (2)
  • Floods (4)
  • Gaylord library (1)
  • Genealogy (15)
  • Granby (2)
  • Hadley (10)
  • Historical Preservation (5)
  • Historical Society (non- S. Hadley) meetings (4)
  • Holyoke (21)
  • Houses (2)
  • Maps (5)
  • Mount Holyoke College (3)
  • Mount Holyoke College - Skinner Museum (1)
  • Newsletter (2)
  • Northampton (1)
  • Notable people (2)
  • Oral History (3)
  • Pelham (1)
  • Pioneer Valley Historical Network (10)
  • Postcards (1)
  • Soap Shop Hill (2)
  • South Hadley businesses (7)
  • South Hadley Canal (13)
  • South Hadley found on eBay (2)
  • South Hadley High School (10)
  • South Hadley Historical Commission (2)
  • South Hadley Historical Society collections (2)
  • South Hadley Historical Society events (5)
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  • South Hadley Historical Society: Contributions to (4)
  • South Hadley Historical Society: Requests to (1)
  • South Hadley photos (2)
  • South Hadley Schools (non-High School) (5)
  • South Hadley: Other locations (3)
  • Sports (2)
  • Stoney Brook (2)
  • Sunderland (1)
  • Sycamores (3)
  • The Glasgow Company (1)
  • The Hampshire Paper Company (1)
  • The Old Firehouse Museum (3)
  • Town of South Hadley government (1)
  • Transportation (2)
  • Trees (2)
  • Unanswered questions (2)
  • Unclassified (7)
  • Woodbridge (3)
  • Works Project Administration (1)
  • World War I (1)
  • World War II (7)

The South Hadley Historical Society websites

  • 1. The South Hadley Historical Society
  • 2. Sycamores
  • 3. South Hadley's Veterans - 60 Years Ago )2005)
  • 4. Our oral history project with Mount Holyoke College
  • 5. Digital Treasures

The Old Firehouse Musuem

The Old Firehouse Musuem
The home of the South Hadley Historical Society

Museum summary

The Old Firehouse Museum presents the history of this town, which was settled in 1753 and is the site of our new nation’s first commercially successful canal. Along with the history of the people and industries of South Hadley, the Old Firehouse Museum commemorates the work of the firefighters who worked in this fascinating building from 1899 to 1973. There is a fine display of firefighting gear and, the museum’s most prized possessions, two 19th-century hand pumpers and a 1926 Dodge Fire Engine.

Upstairs at the museum, visitors will find the Gallery with exhibits that change yearly. The museum is open May-September on Sunday from 1:30 to 4:00 pm and also on Wednesday in July and August from 1:30 to 4:00 pm. Also upstairs, the permanent exhibit of the 1890’s Room displays objects of everyday life.

Sycamores

Sycamores

The South Hadley Canal

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The South Hadley Historical Society on Google Groups

  • http://groups.google.com/group/south-hadley-historical-society/topics

The South Hadley Historical Commission on Google groups

  • The South Hadley Historical Commission

Other South Hadley links

  • 1. The Flood of 1936
  • 1. The South Hadley canal on Wikipedia
  • 2. From Holyoke Water Power
  • 3. Click here for good photos
  • 4. More Historical Links from the Town website

Still more good local history links

South Hadley Public Library: http://www.shadleylib.org/localhistory.html

Gaylord Library: http://www.gaylordlibrary.org/

At Gaylord:

Kinney Collection: http://home.comcast.net/~southhadleyhistoricalsociety/kinneycollection.doc


At Gaylord:

South Hadley family folders: http://home.comcast.net/~southhadleyhistoricalsociety/shfamilyfolders.xls


From Dale Johnston: http://www.southhadley.us/


Hadley Historical Society: http://home.comcast.net/~southhadleyhistoricalsociety/hadleyhistoricalsociety.pdf

Association of Pioneer Valley Historical Societies: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PioneerValleyHistoricalSocieties/

Books about South Hadley

  • 1. Memories of a River Town by Bill Cary
  • 2. You Had to Be There by Jack Croke
  • 3. In Old South Hadley by Sophie Eastman

My Blog List

  • Holyoke, Mass
    Holyoke Y.M.C.A. Men - 23 February 1930 Who Will Have Leads in Minstrel Show The boys at the Y.M.C.A under direction for Arthur T. Brigham are to present a minstrel show at the M...
    4 hours ago
  • Save Hadley!
    32 Acres for Sale on Moody Bridge Road - Kestrel Land Trust has announced an appeal to save 32 acres of beautiful agricultural land on Moody Bridge Road. The trust has to raise $50,000 by December...
    3 months ago
  • Exploring Western Massachusetts
    The Highland Street Foundation's Free Fun Fridays For August - The Highland Street Foundation's Free Fun Fridays program, offering free admission to cultural venues throughout the Bay State to all who would partake, ha...
    6 months ago

Other good links

  • 1. Pioneer Valley History Network
  • 2. Mass. Memories
  • 3. Digital Amherst
  • 4. Massachusetts Historical Commission

More good books

Regional History

Massachusetts, General
1. Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl by Kate Waters, Russ Kendall
2. Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy by Kate Waters, et al
3. Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times by Kate Waters, et al
4. Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, 1774 (Dear America ) by Ann Turner

Boston, Massachusettes
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Author), Lynd Ward

Deerfield, Massachusettes
The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline B. Cooney

Lowell, Massachusettes
1. So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell , Massachusetts , 1847 (Dear America ) by Barry Denenberg
2. The Bobbin Girl by Emily Arnold McCully

Springfield, Massachusettes
1. The Boy on Fairfield Street Kathleen Krull
2. Helen Keller's Teacher by Margaret Davidson

Quabbin Valley, Massachusettes
Letting the Swift River Go by Jane Yolen

Firefighting
1. Ward LaFrance Fire Trucks 1916-1978 Photo Archive by John J. Burzichelli (Editor), Richard J. Gergel
2. Fighting Fires by Seymour Simon
3. Firefighters A To Z by Chris L. Demarest
4. A Day With Firefighters by Jan Kottke
5. Firehouse Co. No. 1 by Peter Lippman

Is the S. Hadley Historical Society doing its job well?

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Newsletter - February 2010 - Click HERE

Posted by Bob Judge at 5:45 PM
Labels: Newsletter

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