History of Brimfield, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Brimfield, Massachusetts, USA

• 1706 - Brimfield is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1731 - Brimfield is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1839 - Brimfield
  Brimfield, Massachusetts
  Hampden county. This town lies 19 miles E. by N. from Springfield, 50 W.N.W. from Providence, R.I., and 70 W. by S. from Bos...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - BRIMFIELD. [Pop. 1,419. Inc. 1731]
  Brimfield was originally granted to certain inhabitants of Springfield, and then included Monson, Wales, and Holland.
  
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•  1847 - Fire In Brimfield
  The beautiful Congregational Church in Brimfield, Mass. was consumed by fire on Sunday forenoon last. It broke out during divine service, and took fro...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Brimfield
  This town was granted by the general court, in the year 1701, to a number of petitioners, inhabitants of Springfield. The township as originally grant...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  First Congregational Church, Brimfield, Mass.
  
  Designed by Princeton, Massachusetts architect Captain William Lamb, the church is two stories in height with a front-gable roof on which is set a four-part steeple. Built between 1847 and 1848.
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• 1854 - Brimfield
  Brimfield, a post-township of Hampden county, Massachusetts, about 70 miles W. by S. from Boston. Population, 1420.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
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  Hitchcock Free Academy and Soldiers' Monument
  
  The Hitchcock Free Academy, known at first as the Brimfield Free Grammar School, was founded in 1855 by Samuel Austin Hitchcock.
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• 1859
  BRIMFIELD, a township of Hampden co., in the state of Massachusetts, U.S., 68 m. SW of Boston. It is watered by the Chicopee and Quinebaug rivers, and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1881 - Celebrated 107th Birthday
  JEMIMA ALLEN, of Brimfield, Mass., who recently celebrated her 107th birthday, was born at Sturbridge, in that State, on Sept. 3, 1774. Her husband di...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Brimfield Massachusetts, 1890
  Brimfield, is an excellent farming town in the extreme east of Hampden County, on the Boston and Albany Railroad, whose station at West Brimfield is 7...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Old Time Stage Coach
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• 1895 - Brimfield
  Brimfield, a post-village of Hampden co., Mass., in Brimfield township, on the Chicopee River, 6 miles S.E. of Brimfield Station on the Boston & Alban...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Lake Ave.
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  Hotel and Car. Brimfield, Mass.
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  The Common. Brimfield, Mass.
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  Bird's-eye View, Brimfield, Mass.
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•  1902 - MISSING HEIRS LOCATED - Bible Assists in Revealing Dead California Resident's Identity - The Relatives of Salem Charles, Who Left $142,000 Are Discovered in New England.
  LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 19. - The mystery surrounding the identity of the man known as "Charles Hill," who died at the Good Samaritan Hospital here on...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  J. Danielson Lincoln Memorial Library
  
  The library was a gift to the town from James Danielson Lincoln in memory of his mother, Sara Danielson, and his wife, Mrs. Eliza T.M. Lincoln. Sarah Danielson was the daughter of Timothy Danielson, one of... Read MORE...
  
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  First Electric Passenger Car into Brimfield, May 6, 1907
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  Town Hall
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  Looking West from Wales Road
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  Rock Cut Near Foskett's Mills
  Grand Trunk Railroad, abt. 1910
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  Lake Avenue
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  Winter in Brimfield, abt. 1910
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  Bird's Eye View
  East Brimfield, Mass.
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  Main St., North Side, Brimfield, Mass.
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  Sherman Lake, Brimfield, Mass.
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  Steerage Rock, Brimfield, Mass., 1910
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• 1916
  Brimfield, a post-village of Hampden co., Mass., in Brimfield township (town), on the Chicopee River, 6 miles SE. of West Brimfield, on the Boston and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Argonne Rest Camp
  
  In 1918 the ironically named Argonne Rest Camp, 13 Main Street, was built for Thomas T. Gray when he returned to Brimfield from service in World War I. The Rest Camp was a store oriented to the automobile trade where Gray and... Read MORE...
  
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  Robert J. MacConnell Dairy bottlecap
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  Cozy Court Cabins
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  Long Vue Motel
  
  The front yard of this farmstead was converted into a tourist court to take advantage of traffic on Route 20. The farmhouse served as the office and some of the outbuildings were remodeled for motel units and a general store.... Read MORE...
  
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  H. L. Parker Dairy
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