House/ Neighborhood Stories 3/3

Oct 24, 20222 min read

State Line House

In 1896, the Springfield Street Railway Company began trolley service down Longmeadow Street to the Connecticut state line. At the state...

Oct 24, 20221 min read

Irinda Colton (1803-1870)

This History Note introduces us to an 1820's shopkeeper, Irinda Colton, of Longmeadow. She operated her own shop on State Street in...

Oct 23, 20223 min read

Mill Road

Mill Road once connected the south end of the Longmeadow Green to the grist mill and the sawmill on Shaker Road. While an 1822 deed in...

Oct 23, 20221 min read

Thomas Francis Cordis, 1843-1915

This week's History Notes shares the letter a 19-year-old Tommy Cordis wrote home to his family in Longmeadow in 1863 during the Civil...

Oct 23, 20222 min read

Boarding House for Newell Button Factory Employees

This History Note shares information about the Boarding House for Newell Button Factory employees. The 1860 census inspired this...

Oct 22, 20222 min read

Longmeadow Country Day School for Younger Boys

I. Mansur Beard, a Harvard graduate, believed that boys should be taught by men (not women) in classes of 15 students or less in order to...

Oct 22, 20221 min read

One More Face of 734 Longmeadow Street

One additional "face" of the Brewer-Young mansion that lasted for almost 60 years was the one shown in the above photo in which the...

Oct 22, 20222 min read

The Many Faces of 734 Longmeadow Street

Recently the Longmeadow Historical Society was able to acquire a previously unknown photo of the Wolcott mansion as it appeared in 1890s....

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