King's Handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts: A Series of Monographs, Historical and DescriptiveMoses King J.D. Gill, Publisher, 1884 - 394 pages |
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Agawam Albany Railroad Association became Boston and Albany bought bridge built Cemetery chapel Chapin Charles Charles Stearns Chester W Chicopee Church City Hall Club Company Congregational Connecticut River Connecticut Valley corner of Main Court Square Dwight east erected established Federal Square feet firm floor George Bliss Hampden Hampden County Hampden Park Hartford Haynes held Henry Hill Holyoke Hotel Indian Orchard J. G. Holland James John land located Lodge Longmeadow Main Street manufacturing Massachusetts Massasoit mayor meetings membership Methodist-Episcopal Church miles National Bank New-England New-York Northampton occupied opened organized paper parish Park pastor present president Pynchon Republican road rooms Samuel Bowles Samuel Osgood secretary side Smith society Spring Stebbins Sunday superintendent tavern tion town treasurer Union United-States Armory vice-president Wason Water-shops Wesson West Springfield William William Pynchon Worthington Street
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Page 66 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 270 - And snatch'd o'er hill and dale, and wood and lawn. And verdant field, and darkening heath between, And villages embosom'd soft in trees, And spiry towns by surging columns mark'd Of household smoke, your eye excursive roams...
Page 89 - ... project of a railroad from Boston to Albany ; a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest rule in arithmetic, to be impracticable, but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practised, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon.
Page 29 - Ellsworth and stay'd there near an hour — reached Springfield by 4 o'clock, and while dinner was getting, examined the Continental Stores at this place. ... A Col" Worthington, Col" Williams, Adjutant General of the State of Massachusetts, Gen.
Page 270 - Of household smoke, your eye excursive roams : Wide-stretching from the hall, in whose kind haunt The hospitable Genius lingers...
Page 18 - Wee intend, by God's grace, as soon as we can, with all convenient speede, to procure some Godly and faithfull minister, with whom^ we purpose to joyne in church covenant, to walk in all the ways of Christ.
Page 210 - ... She had often repeated that clause of the beautiful Nicene Creed; now it came with new meaning, new force and sublimity. " I believe in the Holy Catholic Church ! " the Church militant here upon earth, gathered from all climes, and from all the corners of the earth, and numbering among its members all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth ; and the Church triumphant, wearing her spotless garments, and joining in the eternal song of thanksgiving, on the other side the narrow river...
Page 256 - THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies! I hear even now the infinite fierce...
Page 97 - ... L. Hinckley, Stephen Brewer, Jonathan H. Butler, Winthrop Hillyer and their associates, received a charter as the NORTHAMPTON AND SPRINGFIELD RAILROAD CORPORATION, for the purpose of building a road " commencing within one mile of the Court House, (Northampton), crossing Connecticut River near Mt. Holyoke, and passing down the valley of said river on the East side thereof, through a portion of Hadley, South Hadley and Springfield, to meet the track of the Hartford and Springfield corporation...
Page 95 - From Salisbury to Williamstown, and then to Bennington in Vermont, there stretches a county of valleys, lakes and mountains, that is yet to be as celebrated as the lake-district of England and the hillcountry of Palestine.