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In 1891, Moses married Anna Reed (1869–1943), affectionately known throughout town as “Ma” Goodwin. She ran the “Colonial Inn,” a boarding house for Amherst College students and gained local fame for her cooking, especially apple pie. Moses and Anna had three daughters: Olive, Amy, and Ruth.
CVS Caremark was founded as MedPartners, Inc. in 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama by several local businessmen as a physician practice management (PPM) company. [ 1 ] HealthSouth , New Enterprise Associates , and Richard M. Scrushy stepped in to provide the company with early financial backing.
Amherst College is in the center of the CDP, south of College Street and east of Pleasant Street, while the University of Massachusetts Amherst is in the northwestern part of the CDP. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.9 square miles (12.8 km 2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2), or 0.41%, are ...
A streetcar for the Amherst and Sunderland Street Railway crosses Amherst Center, in front of the town hall, c. 1903.. The earliest known document of the lands now comprising Amherst is the deed of purchase dated December 1658 between John Pynchon of Springfield and three native inhabitants, referred to as Umpanchla, Quonquont, and Chickwalopp. [7]
Amherst Regional Public Schools, in Amherst, Massachusetts, US Amherst Central High School , in Snyder, Amherst, New York State, US Amherst College , in Amherst, Massachusetts, US
As a consequence of that and later fires, the character of the commercial buildings in the district is largely that of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Initially an agricultural area, Amherst flourished with the rise of both Amherst College and the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass Amherst) as major institutions. [2]
Amity Street is a main east-west street in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the continuation of Main Street, being renamed Amity Street west of Pleasant Street, which is the main north-south street in Amherst. Emily Dickinson lived on Main Street, while Eugene Field lived on 219 Amity Street. [1]
Writers from Amherst, Massachusetts (28 P) Pages in category "People from Amherst, Massachusetts" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.