Agawam, Hampden County, Massachusetts Genealogy

Brief History

 * Agawam, Massachusetts at Wikipedia

Town Clerk
Agawam Town Hall 36 Main St Agawam, MA 01001 Phone: 413-786-0400 x 215 Fax: 413-786-9927 Email: [mailto:clerk@agawam.ma.us clerk@agawam.ma.us] Website

Historical Data
Establishment and former town name(s

Historical data relating to counties, cities, and towns in Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997),.

17 May 1855: Incorporated as a town, from part of West Springfield

16 November 1971: Town charter adopted which established city form of government

Archiac name: Feeding Hills

Section/Villages within the town: Agawam Center, Feeding Hills, Hubbard Corners

2 May 1960: Bounds between Agawam and West Springfield restablished.

Town History

 * Agawam, Massachusetts: a town history

Vital Records

 * Record of cases of midwifery, 1827-1882

Includes records of births in Suffield, Connecticut; South Hadley, Granby, Northampton, West Springfield and Agawam, Massachusetts.


 * Vital records [Agawam, Massachusetts], 1855-1905

Inventory of town and city archives of Massachusetts, no. 7, Hampden County, vol. 1, Agawam

City Directories

 * Springfield (Massachusetts) suburban directories

Cemeteries

 * Cemeteries of Agawam and Feeding Hills [Massachusetts] : five cemeteries for public use and two small private cemeteries

Agawam

Old North Burying Ground

Maps

 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 608970
 * 2) Google
 * 3) Hometown Locator

Migration
Migration routes for early European settlers to and from included:


 * Connecticut River a navigable river stretching from the border of Quebec, New Hampshire, and Vermont flowing south to through Connecticut into Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean at Old Saybrook, Connecticut
 * Alford and Egremont (MA) Turnpike 1812
 * Ancram (NY) Turnpike 1805, also sometimes called the Catskill Road, from Salisbury, Connecticut to Catskill, New York
 * Catskill Road 1750s from Springfield, Massachusetts to Catskill, New York
 * Catskill Turnpike  (aka Susquehannah Turnpike ) from Catskill, NY to Unadilla, NY; route travelled by Europeans by 1792; toll booths opened by 1804.
 * Columbia (NY) Turnpike 1799
 * Great Barrington and Aford (MA) Turnpike 1812
 * Greenwood Road 1799 from Hartford, Connecticut to Albany, New York
 * Hampden and Berkshire (MA) Turnpike 1826
 * Hillsdale and Chatham Turnpike 1805 from Alford, Massachusetts to Albany, New York
 * Housatonic River (MA) Turnpike 1809
 * King's Highway, also known as the upper fork of the Boston Post Road, from Boston, Massachusetts to Charleston, South Carolina 1650s
 * Massachusetts 10th Turnpike 1800
 * Massachusetts 12th Turnpike 1812
 * Old Connecticut Path  1630 from Boston, Massachusetts to Hartford, Connecticut
 * Rensselaer and Columbia (NY) Turnpike 1799
 * Salisbury and Canaan (CT) Turnpike 1801-1829
 * Ulster and Delaware Turnpike 1802 from Salisbury, Connecticut to Bainbridge, New York