by creocoding | Jun 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Catamount Hill Association will conduct a hike on Saturday, June 18, 2016, to the monument and flagpole at the site on Catamount of the first flag-raising over an American schoolhouse. Hike time and meeting location, as well as more information about the hike...
by creocoding | Jun 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Cheapside mural by artist Stephan G. Maniatty. Image source and more information here. In the late 18th Century and until the railroad came to the region, Cheapside, a village on the Deerfield River in Greenfield, was a bustling river port, busy with sailors, taverns,...
by creocoding | May 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
A town’s roads not only knit the community together and connect it to the outside world, they also reveal its deep layers of history. The evolution of Connecticut Valley’s pathways and roads, with a focus on Colrain itself, will be the topic of the Colrain Historical...
by creocoding | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Spring 2016 edition of Historical Notes, the periodic newsletter of the Colrain Historical Society, was mailed in April. Click here for a PDF version (2.54 MB.)
by creocoding | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
BASIL HOFFMAN We mourn the passing in February of Basil Hoffman, 80, former Colrain Historical Society president and a member of the Board of Directors until 2015. As President Basil played a major role in the Arthur A. Smith Covered Bridge Project in 1979. He is...