Hometowns: Histories of Western Massachusetts Communities

Town Histories: Hampden County

•  Agawam, Massachusetts: A Town History, by E. LaFrancis (1980)

•  Early Hampden: Its Settlers and the Homes They Built , by C. C. Howlett (1958)

•  Early Springfield and Longmeadow , by H. A. Wright (1940)

•  Footprints in Montgomery, Montgomery Historical Society (n.d.)

•  History of Chicopee, by T. M. Szetela (n.d.)

•  History of the Town of East Longmeadow, Town History Group (1969)

•  Images of America: Around Southwick (1997)

•  Images of America: Ludlow, by K. E. Pilon (1999)

•  The Story of Holyoke , by W. E. Harper (1973)

•  The Taverns and Turnpikes of Blandford , by S. G. Wood (1908)

•  West Springfield, Massachusetts, by E. M. Swift (1969)

•  Westfield, Massachusetts, edited by E. C. Janes (1969)

NOTE: For histories of Springfield, see the booklist “Springfield History”.

Town Histories: Hampshire County

•  Handbook of Amherst, by F. Hitchcock (1891)

•  The Hatfield Book (1970)

•  Historic Hadley , by A. Morehouse Walker (1906)

•  History of Hadley , by S. Judd (1905)

•  History of Ware, by A. Chase (1911)

•  Images of America: Easthampton, by E. Dwyer (2000)

•  Images of America: Southampton, by T. Hendrick (1998)

•  In Old South Hadley , by S. E. Eastman (1912)

•  A Sketch of the City of Northampton , by W. Atwood. (n.d.)

•  History of the Town of Whately , by J. M. Crafts (1899) 4

•  Southampton, by W. Czelusniak (1975)

•  The Village of Amherst , by F. Prentice Rand (1958)

•  Town of South Hadley 250th Anniversary Book (n.d.)

•  Westhampton: a Short History, by J. Greene (1978)

Other Massachusetts Town, Cities, and Villages

•  A Bicentennial History of Becket , by C. Alford Archer (1964)

•  A Bicentennial History of Dalton (1984)

•  A History of Otis ( 1976)

•  Charlemont , by A. Healy (1965)

•  Early Houses of Richmond , by T. Hallock (n.d.)

•  Great Barrington: Great Town, Great History, by Bernard A. Drew (1999)

•  History of Ashfield , by F. Howes (1910)

•  History of Erving, by P. Care et al (1983)

•  History of Greenfield , by F. M. Thompson (1904)

•  A History of Leverett (1974)

•  History of Pittsfield, by G. F. Willison (1957)

•  History of Rowe , by P. Whiting Brown (1960)

•  History of the Town of Gill, by R. M. Stoughton (1978)

•  Images of America: Montague, by P. S. Miller & K. J. Scott (2000)

•  Images of America: Greenfield, by P. S. Miller & W. C. Garrison (2000)

•  Lanesborough, by F. S. Martin (1965)

•  Monterey: a Local History, edited by P. Murkett (1997)

•  New Pictorial History of Greenfield, by S. Finer (1975)

•  Old Tyringham (1979)

•  Only One Cummington , by H. Foster & W. Streeter (1974)

•  Our Otis Heritage , by B. Hawley (1976)

•  Richmond , by K. Huntington Annin (1964)

•  See All The People; or, Life in Lee, by F. Consolati (1978)

•  Sheffield , by L. Preiss (1976)

•  Steeples: Sketches of North Adams, by J. Manning (1997)

•  Stockbridge, (n.d.)

•  Two Hundred Years of Alford (1973)

•  Tyringham A Bicentennial Review (1976)

•  Warwick Biography of a Town, by C. Morse (1963)

•  Whately 1771-1971, by E. M. Cane (1972)

•  West Stockbridge , by E. Garnett (1974)

•  Williamstown, by R. Brooks (1953)

NOTE: This is a partial listing of the SCL's town histories, so please ask a librarian if you do not see what you want. Also, many of these books are in storage; please ask if you need help finding them or any other items.

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