History of Northampton, Massachusetts
Author : James Russell Trumbull
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Louisbourg (N.S.)
ISBN :
Author : James Russell Trumbull
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Louisbourg (N.S.)
ISBN :
Author : James Russell Trumbull
Publisher :
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Louisbourg
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Author : Kerry Wayne Buckley
Publisher : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
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In 1790, President Timothy Dwight of Yale offered this description of Northampton, a town situated on the banks of the Connecticut River in western Massachusetts: The inhabitants of this valley possess a common character, he remarked. Even the beauty of the scenery, scarcely found in the same degree elsewhere, becomes a source of pride as well as enjoyment. For Dwight, the appeal of the place lay in its proportions, which epitomized eighteenth-century ideas about the proper balance between the natural world and the built environment. Northampton evoked equally powerful visions in others. of saving grace and redemption, while to Swedish soprano Jenny Lind it was simply a paradise. During the 1920s Northampton became Main Street USA - a reassuring backdrop for the presidency of the city's former mayor Calvin Coolidge. But for Smith College professor Newton Arvin, it was the dark side of small-town America which surfaced during the early decades of the Cold War. From witchcraft trials to Shays's Rebellion, from Sojourner Truth and the utopian abolitionists to Sylvester Graham and diet reform, many of the main currents of American life have flowed through this New England river town. Called Paradise brings together a broad range of writing on the city's rich heritage. Edited with an introduction by Kerry W. Buckley, the volume includes essays by John Demos, Christopher Clark, Nell Irvin Painter, David W. Blight, and other distinguished scholars who have found this region fertile ground for research. Together their writings not only chronicle the history of a place but illustrate, in microcosm, the dynamics at work in the larger sweep of America's past.
Author : James Russell Trumbull
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Page : pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : Penina Migdal Glazer
Publisher : 350th Anniversary Committee of City of Northampton Massachus
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
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Author : J. Michael Moore
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1439648069
Northampton State Hospital, established in 1856, was built with the optimistic spirit of humanitarian reform. For many years, it was run by Dr. Pliny Earle, a champion of treatment that combined individualized care with manual labor, religious worship, recreation, and amusement. This vision was overwhelmed as the hospital was called upon to care for ever-larger numbers of people with varying needs. By the mid-20th century, the hospital was an isolated small city, with hundreds of employees caring for more than 2,000 patients in overcrowded and inadequate conditions. It became a nationally important center of political and legal struggle over the role of state hospitals in the care of the mentally ill. After being gradually phased out, the hospital was closed in 1993, and the buildings, though listed in the National Register of Historic Places, were demolished in 2006. This volume brings to life the 135-year story of Northampton State Hospital through beautiful and haunting photographs drawn from the collections of Historic Northampton, the citys local history museum.
Author : Charles Arthur Sheffeld
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Florence (Mass.)
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight
Publisher :
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : James Russell Trumbull
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Louisbourg (N.S.)
ISBN :
Author : James Russell Trumbull
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9780243699445