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Hadley (/ ˈ h æ d l i / ⓘ, HAD-lee) [3] is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.The population was 5,325 at the 2020 census. [4] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Hadley Center Historic District is an expansive, 2,500-acre (1,000 ha) historic district encompassing the village center of Hadley, Massachusetts.When it was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, the district encompassed the town green and 17 buildings that faced it, at the junction of Russell Street (Massachusetts Route 9) and Middle Street (Massachusetts Route ...
In Northfield, Massachusetts there is a statue along the side of the road on Route 63, not far from the New England campus of Thomas Aquinas College, that commemorates the location where his grandson, Nathaniel Dickinson, age 47, and Ashael Burt, age 40, were murdered and scalped by Native Americans in 1747.
Judges' Cave, where Goffe and Whalley hid. At the Restoration, Whalley, with his son-in-law, Major-General William Goffe, escaped to North America, and landed at Boston on 27 July 1660, where they were well received by Governor John Endecott and visited by the principal persons of the town. [4]
John Russell was born on 1626 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England [1] and immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony aboard The Defence in 1635 with his father and brother as part of the Great Migration. [2]
The Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District is a rural historic district along the Connecticut River in Hadley, Massachusetts.Located north of the town center on River Road, the district is a rural landscape with a well-documented history of settlement and usage from the mid-18th century into the 20th century.
The Angel of Hadley is the central character in a possibly apocryphal tale combining the execution of Charles I in England, King Philip's War and Hadley, Massachusetts. According to the tale Colonel William Goffe , who was wanted for his role in the regicide, was hiding in Hadley when it was attacked by Indians in 1675 or 1676.
The Porter–Phelps–Huntington House, known historically as Forty Acres, is a historic house museum at 130 River Drive in Hadley, Massachusetts. It is open seasonally, from May to October. The house contains the collection of one extended family, with objects dating from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries.