by creocoding | Oct 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Pitt House A potluck supper, election of officers and an important discussion of the future of the Pitt House will be on the agenda for the final 2017 meeting of the Colrain Historical Society, Thursday, October 12, at the home of Joan McQuade, 7 Main Road. The...
by creocoding | Sep 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Second Baptist Church, August 2017 In 1797, when members of the Second Baptist Society on Christian Hill built their church, they used the scribing joinery prevalent in Europe for hundreds of years. But they also employed a unique truss design soon to be adopted in...
by creocoding | Aug 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
“The Narrow Escape of Angeline Palmer” will be the topic of a program at the Colrain Historical Society Thursday, August 10, in the Stacy Barn behind the Pitt House on Main Road in Colrain. In 1840 free African American residents of Amherst rescued a 10-year-old...
by creocoding | Jul 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Athol photographer Dale Monette will bring historic photos of the five towns flooded to make the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s and his own photos, some of matching sites, in a program “Quabbin, Then and Now” at the Colrain Historical Society meeting Thursday, July...
by creocoding | Jun 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Elder Edward Davenport In 1820, the First Baptist Church of Colrain sent its first and only missionary, Elder Edward Davenport, to “labor in the destitute places in the neighborhood of Smithfield, PA.” He traveled as far as Springfield, Ohio, keeping a diary and...